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THE TOWN OF 

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ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK: 

Rpom h[2e K\p^t Settlement m 1712, ky Capt. Vym. gor^sl, 

to 1887. 



BY CHARLES H, COCHRANE. 



ILLUSTRATED. 



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Vrinted for the PublisUer by W. F. Boshart, 241 Main slrBct:. 

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CONTENTS, 



Page. 

First Settlers, ..... 5 

Military Record, .... 25 

Old Papers, , . • • • 31 

Precinct Meetings, ' . ... -57 

Manufacturing, . . . ... 62 

Milton in 1830, • ■ ... 78 

Old Customs, . • • ■ • ^5 

Reminiscences, . • • • • 93 

Churches and Societies, . • . " . 105 

Property Holders, . . . . . 136 

Old Families, . . . • -153 

Statistical, . . . . .190 

Ths Fruit Industry, . ... 186 

Errata and Addenda, . . ' . . I 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Page. 

Scene on Hudson at Marlborough about 1600, frontispiece. 

Map of Marlborough, facing .... 4 

The Fight at Fort Montgomery, October, 1877, . . .12 

British Gun Boats firing at Capt. Anning Smith's residence, Milton, in 1777, 21 

Whitney Basket P"actory, .... 68 

Press on which Daniel S. Tuthill printed the "Pioneer" at Milton, in 1830, 84 

Stocks at Silas Purdy's Mill, Marlborough, in 1773, . . 85 

Ravine Falls, Marlborough, as they appeared in 1800, . . 93 

Ice boat opposite Milton, . .... 2 

The Famous Antwerp Raspberry, . • • ,187 

The Minnewaski Blacklierry, . • ... 189 



PREFllCE, 



An introduction to a work on local history is apt to be a 
sort of apology for what the author has left undone, for all 
history is of necessity incomplete, because of the lack of 
full records of the past. While it is true that the within 
sketches of Marlborough do not constitute a perfect history 
of the town, yet they are a more complete and conscientious 
collection of facts and incidents concerning the place and 
its inhabitants than has been attempted previously. 

There are many dates or connecting links of history in 
this book which i-epresent hours of labor and research. 'Old 
newspaper files, old deeds, state and county records, old ac- 
count books, other histories, directories and private papers 
have been searched, in great numbers, to obtain all possible 
information concerning Marlborough and its earl}- histor}-. 
Old residents have been interviewed, and their mem(~)ries 
stirred regarding what their fathers and grandfathers said 
and did. 

Much valuable aid has been received from the following 
gentlemen: John Buckley, Nathaniel H. DuBois, Edward 
Anderson, H. Scott Corwin, David Craft, David Sands, Eli 
Harcourt, Samuel Harris, C. S. Northrip, Walter J. Cay- 
wood, Wm. C. Young, Dr. John Deyo, of Newburgh, E. 
A. Merritt, Earl Stone, Henry D. Fowler, of Middle Hope, 
Nehemiah Fowler, of Newburgh, Alexander Young of 
Hampton, members of families whose history appears with- 
in, and many others. 

From Ruttenber's "History of Orange" many facts were 
gleaned, and credit is here given that accurate and faith- 
fully-compiled work. 

Rev. S. H. Jagger's "Quarter Century Discourse" has 
also been drawn upon largely. 

Some matter has been taken from Sylvester's "History' of 
Ulster," but the work is so notoriously incorrect that noth- 
ing could be reproduced without verification. 

The files of the "Pioneer," published in Milton in 1S30, 
furnished many valuable points and dates. 

The town records, in possession of C. M. Woolsey, were 
drawn on to a considerable extent. 

The map of the town was reproduced from old maps and 
surveys, new streets being inserted where they belong, and 
other connections made. Such streets or roads as were 
witht)jt names have been supplied with the name of some 



prominent landholder on the line, as the most convenient 
means of identification. The work has been faithfully done. 

There is a strong tendency in writing individual histories, 
to exaggerate the good qualities of certain individuals, and 
laud them to a degree which is nauseating and ridiculous. So 
common has this become in numerous countv histories, that 
the public has learned to regard such laudatory notices as 
amusing advertisements of the individuals in question, for 
which they have paid in some way or other. In order to 
avoid this method of making history the author of this work 
has used his own judgment as to what men properly deserved 
special notice above their fellows. This book being of lim- 
ited size, doubtless some men of wisdom, virtue and ability 
have escaped notice. Their descendants will please pardon 
the omission. 

No one who has not tried it, knows how difificult it is to 
obtain accurate information of things long dead and gone. 
The temptation is great to draw on the imagination to fill 
up gaps, and enliven dry dates and figures. While endeav- 
oring to place events in an attractive form the writer has 
taken no liberties with history. Tradition has not been pre- 
sented as fact, and fiction has not been substituted for 
tradition. 

Errors there doubtless are, and a good many of them, for 
none can say with accuracy what was done one hundred or 
one hundred and fifty years ago. The record presented in 
these pages is offered to the public simply as the result of 
honest labor to bring together all that is known and believed 
of Marlborough, before the demise of another generation 
shall have carried many valuable reminiscences to the grave. 

Some may criticise the book as a collection of names, and 
such it is to a large extent. Names are dry reading, but 
they are useful for reference, delightful to the descendant 
who sees his grandfather upon an honored roll, invaluable 
to the future historian, and represent the living facts with- 
out which history would not be. It is the men and not the 
things which make the record. God made the world, and 
wondrous and beautiful it is ; but, without the men who 
inhabit it, how useless and extravagant w^ould it appear. So 
this history of the men who trod the soil we tread, who saw 
the same hills, the same valleys, the same broad Hudson, 
that we see, but in a different age and generation, in less 
cultivated and more troublous times, is presented to the 
residents of Marlborough of to day, for their kindly perusal 
and criticism. Charles H. Cochrane. 

Marlborough, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1887. 



ERRm AND SDDENDUM. 

Page 6. — Bellamont should be Bellomont. 

Page 7. — " In 1723 it appears that Francis Harrison was a 
resident." This is ver}^ doubtftd. Harrison, Graham, Mor- 
ris-;, Barbarie and Wentworth were men who held official 
positions, and probably obtained grants of land in Marl- 
borough through favoritism. They held them for speculative 
purposes. Capt. Bard and Major DuBois were probably 
the only original landholders who settled here. Others had 
to buy of the patentees or speculators. 

Page 6. — Capt. John Evans was a man of bad political 
character, and appears to have gobbled up so much land in 
a questionable manner, that it was very proper that he 
should have been dispossessed. In the " Colonial History of 
New York" a letter is published which was written to the 
British authorities by those Avho wished to overthrow 
Evans' claim. This states that at that time (.1731) Capt. 
Evans' tract (which included Marlborough) had but one 
house on it, and that was located near where Cornwall now 
is. If this be true there were no white settlers in Marl- 
borough before 1701, and no houses here. This strengthens 
the probability that Capt. Wm. Bond was the first settler. 

Page 8. Wolvert Acker was supervisor of Newburgh in 

1775, and 1777 to 1780 inclusive. He died January 17, 1799, 
aged 67 years, and was buried in the cemetery at Marlbor- 
ough. His nouse was on what is now the Henry Armstrong 
property, not Alexander Young's, as stated. The Youngs 
property at Hampton, originally belonged to Gen. Leonard 
Smith. Acker's house is the " Wolvert Roost," made famous 
by Washington Irving. 

Page 15. — James Carpenter died July, 1887. 

Page 17.— Clementine Sands was not an ancestor to David 
Sands, but probably a cousin of his grandfather's. 

Page 18.— Nathaniel Hallock died July, 1887. 

Page 91.— Moah should be Mobury. 



4 

Page 97.— Robart had a ropevvalkon Main street. Jasper 
Van Buren's store was near where Wygant's blacksmith 
shop now stands. 

In 1877 the Y. M. C. A. of Marlborough, which flourished 
for about two years, issued a small paper for a few months. 
It was managed by H. Scott Cor win. 

A. A. Bensel, of Milton, published what was styled a 
"History of the Town of Marlborough," in 1857. It was 
twelye pages in size. It contained nine pages of amusing 
nonsense and three pages of the precinct records from 1772 
to 1779, and nothing else. Bensel had a small printing of- 
fice a quarter of a mile north of Milton yillage. 



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^ FIRST SETTLERSh 



Historians agree in naming Marlborough as one of the 
original or mother-towns of Ulster county. To convey an 
approximate idea of the time of earliest settlement of the 
town it has been necessary to refer to the early records of 
the county, which show that the settlers of what is now 
Marlborough were represented in the first legislativ^e assem- 
bly of the colony, which met in New York in 1691, By an 
act of Assembly in 1743 Marlborough was embraced in the 
precinct of the Highlands. In 1762 this precinct was di- 
vided into Newburgh and New Windsor precincts. In 1772 
Marlborough and Plattekill were set off from Newburgh as 
the precinct of New Marlborough, and in 1778 the precinct 
was dignified with the name of town. The exact date of 
the first settlement of the locality it is impossible to de- 
termine accurately. Many of the first settlers of the town 
lived at a period considerably antedating the Revolution. 
The earliest evidence of residence to be found is among the 
colonial land papers in the office of the Secretary of State 
of New York. The oldest of these papers is a petition of 
Egbert and Hendrick Schoonmaker, of Kingston, in 1697, 
" praying a grant for a tract of vacant land, about 600 acres, 
lying opposite to the high lands or thereabouts, being on 
both sides the Oudt-man's kill or creek, having been formerly 
patented to Capt. Evans, but since broken by an act of 
General Assembly." Whether the Schoonmakers obtained 
the land and settled on it does not appear, but the quantity 
of the land petitioned for would indicate that it was wanted 
for a homestead. Next come petitions of Alexander Griggs, 
in 1709, for 600 acres; Augustus Graham and Alexander 
Griggs, in 1710, for 1200 acres; Captain William Bond, in 
1 71 2, for 600 acres; Peter Johnson, in 1 712, for 500 acres ; 
Francis Harrison & Co., in 1713, for 5000 acres (mostlv in 



6 TJic History of Marlborough. 

what is now the town of Newburs^h) ; Lewis Morris and 
others, in 1714, for 5000 acres. None of these men have left 
posterit}^ among us, nor any landmarks or evidences of thrift 
and industry. 

The vacant lands of Capt. John Evans, above referred to, 
were the subject of a memorable controversy, during the 
years 1691, 1692 and 1693, as to the right of Governor Fletch- 
er, of the Province of New York, to grant to Capt. John 
Evans a large tract of land, including the present towns of 
Southern Ulster and nearly one-half of the towns of North- 
ern Orange, extending to a point near Cornwall. New 
Marlborough precinct was at first comprehended in this 
tract. Evans fought stubbornly for his claim, but, for some 
unexplained reason, during the administration of the Earl of 
Bellamont, the whole transaction was declared void. Evans 
felt that the interference of the Earl of Bellamont was un- 
called for, and being doubly assured as to the legality of the 
transfer, succeeded in interesting the attention of Iving 
William III, who, after hearing the argument submitted by 
Evans, refused to confirm the decision of the Earl of Bella- 
mont. In 1698 the English government became aroused to 
the mistake of granting such large tracts of land to specu- 
lators, and annulled the patent to Capt. Evans by act of 
Assembly, May 12, 1699. 

Capt. Willliam Bond and Sukie Bond. 

There seems to be no doubt that Capt. William Bond was 
the first settler in the northern part of Marlborough, now 
known as Milton, and although he may not have been the 
first settler of the town, he is the first of whom there is an 
authentic record. He obtained the Bond patent from Queen 
Anne, June 12, 17 12. His land is now taken up by the 
farms of Nathaniel Hallock, the Woolseys, Sears, Harcourts, 
Lyons and others. He also obtained a patent for 500 acres 
in Plattekill, in 1720. He followed the sea, but must have 
spent a good portion of his time in Marlborough, as lie was 
a deputy surveyor here in 171 7, and paid taxes on ^15 value 



The Itii story of MarlboroiigJi. ^ 

of land in Newburgh, in 17 14, Marlborough being then at- 
tached to Newburgh. 

Capt. Bond established his daughter, Sukie Bond, here, 
at what date is uncertain. The tradition is that he placed 
her in this wild spot because she refused to marry to please 
him. She lived in very modest style, in a little cabin on 
land now belonging to Oliver C. Hull, in the rear of where 
the old Hicksite meeting house now stands. She had some 
slaves to attend her, but must have led a lonely and desolate 
life. She and her father were buried near her cabin, but 
their graves are now obliterated. 

Alexander Griggs paid taxes on his land in Marlborough 
in 17 14, but there is not positive evidence that he resided 
here. In that year his property was rated at ^^35, and he 
paid four shillings, four and a half pence tax. 

In 171 7-18 the taxpa3^ers in Marlborough were Alexander 
Griggs, William Bond, Mr. Gomoz and A. Graham. 

In 1723 it appears that Francis Harrison was a resident, 
for he was given a certificate for "a certain lot of land now 
in his possession" (June 26, 1723). He paid taxes on this 
land in 1726. Other grants taken were known as the Har- 
rison, Wentworth, Bond, Barbaric, Morris and DuBois 
grants. A fuller description of them will be found under 
the head of " Old Papers." 

November 6, 1747, Samuel and Isaac Fowler purchased 
500 acres, part of the Harrison patent, lying south of Marl- 
borough, from James Alexander and Samuel Gomoz, a 
Portuguese Jew merchant living in New York. Jews' creek 
ran through this land, and was sufficiently deep for large- 
sized vessels and rafts of logs to float up to a saw mill on 
the property now owned by the Buckley family. 

Isaac Fowler had a son who served in the militia during 
the Revolution, but Samuel Fowler must have been a Tory, 
for in 1788 he was arrested in Newburgh as a person of 
" equivocal and suspected character." He refused the oath 
of allegiance and was confined by the Committee of Safety. 
Most of the Marlborough Fowlers descended from these 
men. (See Fowler.) 



8 The History of Marlborough. 

WoLFERT Acker. 

In 1772 Wolfert i\cker, or Ecker, who was the great- 
grandson ot Jan Acker, an early Dutch settler, purchased th(^ 
north part of the Harrison patent, and built a house on what 
is now Alexander Voimg's propert}', south of the present 
tcjwn limits. It was he who first established the landing at 
Hampton, near the site of the old dock, now known as 
Henderson's dc^ck. He operated a ferry from that point lO 
the Hudson river, passing up the Wappingers creek to ver}' 
near the site now occupied by the Dutchess Print Works, in 
Wappingers Falls. Among his descendants is Augusta T. 
Ecker, wife of Rev. D. C. Niven, of Highland. 

From voluminous notes left by Jonathan W. Hasbrouck, 
of Rondout, who had been for years collecting material for 
a history of Ulster county, but died before the work was 
compiled, the following is given concerning the interest 
manifested by Acker in the early struggles of the settlers : 

" He entered warmly into the struggle for Independence 
and soon became a most valuable man for the precinct. He 
was chairman of the Committee of Safety for the precinct 
in 1775, and took an important part in the controversy in 
that part of the town where the strongest feelings existed 
in favor of the crown. His house was a favorite resort for 
the Whigs, who used to congregate there nearly ever)- 
Sunday to talk over the progress of events." 

Major Lewis DuBois. 

Lewis DuBois, sometimes called Colonel, but more usually 
•Major DuBois, settled in Marlborough before 1760, the ex- 
act date being undetermined. 

He purchased nearly 3000 acres of land l3Mng on both sides 
of the Old Man's kill. This land, or part of it, was bought 
from a man named Quick. The tradition is that Quick was 
very improvident. By some means he was given a commis- 
sion in the patriotic army, but had no money to procure his 
unilorm and outht, so sold his patrimony to Lewis DuBois 
tor a horse and uniform and a few dollars in ready money. 



The History of Marlborough. 9 

The Major lived just north of Marlborough village, in the 
house owned and occupied at this writing by Samuel Har- 
ris, which was built by him before 1770. He held all the 
land about the vicinity of Old Man's kill and the river flats 
in front, together with all the water privileges in the south- 
ern part of the town. He was largely interested in the mill- 
ing business, operating the mill latel}^ torn down to make 
room for Theodore Kniffin's large building on Landing street. 
He also owned and operated the woolen factory, now oper- 
ated by Woolsey Wright as a grist mill. At one time Major 
DuBois furnished wheat to the Continental army at West 
Point. Of the further history of these business enterprises, 
a more accurate resume is given in future pages. 

Lewis DuBois was supervisor of Newburgh precinct in 
1763, and the most prominent man in his section. He kept 
several slaves, and was known as a liberal and enterprising 
citizen. He gave land for the erection of the Presbyterian 
church, and contributed largely to its support. He was 
a delegate to the Provincial Congress of New York in 1775, 
and also to the Congress which met later in the same 3'ear. 

Lewis DuBois was born September 14, 1728, where is not 
known, but it is presumed that his father was Lewis DuBois, 
of New Paltz. The opinions of local historians differ as to 
where he spent his early life. Some claim him for New 
Paltz, others for Montgomery, Orange county, where he 
owned land. His brother, Zachariah DuBois, lived in Salis- 
bury, near Montgomery, which has led some to think that 
he resided there before coming to Marlborough. However 
this may be, it is certain that he married Rachel DuBois, 
(probably his hrst cousin) December 17, 1756. vShe died 
young, and in 1770 he married Rachel Jansen, of New 
Paltz. He was established in Marlborough, and in active 
business, when the war of the Revolution broke out. Pre- 
viously he had held the rank of major in the English militia, 
but he entered the " Continental Line " as a captain in James 
Clinton's regiment, which was recruited for the invasion of 
Canada — a popular craze which at that time did much" to 
fritter away the resources of the colonists. This Ulster regi- 



lo TJic History of MarlborongJi. 

ment was well armed and uniformed, having' gray coats with 
green cuffs and facings, short breeches, long waistcoats, long 
stockings, low shoes, broad-brimmed hats and old-fash- 
ioned cues! DuBois was afterwards promoted to major, in 
the Newburgh regiment, and November 17, 1776, commis- 
sioned as colonel of the Fifth Regiment, under GeUi Clinton. 
The other officers of the regiment were Jacobus Bruyn, 
lieutenant-colonel; Samuel Logan, major; Henry DuBois, 
adjutant ; Nehemiah Carpenter, quarter-master ; Samuel 
Townsend, paymaster; John Gano, chaplain ; Samuel Cook, 
surgeon ; Ebenezer Hutchinson, surgeon's mate. Some 
members of this regiment undoubtedly were from Marl- 
borough, but who they were cannot be determined with ac- 
curacy. 

Major DuBois, as he was commonly called, even after his 
promotion, served with considerable distinction. Governor 
George Clinton wrote of him in 1776: " Major DuBois (who 
has been promoted from captain) is highly recommended to 
Congress, as well by the general officers as the committee 
who lately returned from Canada." Of his military career 
we know that he was at Point Lacoy at the engagement with 
a number of Canadians. In the spring of 1777 he was sta- 
tioned in the Highlands with his regiment, and was there 
when forts Clinton and Montgomery were taken in October 
of that year. At Fort Montgomery they suffered severel)', 
the brunt of that desperate and heroic resistance falling on 
Major DuBois and his troops. At this time his regiment 
was mostl}^ clad in hunting shirts, such as farmers' servants 
wore, and the British thought the men to be militia, and 
their dead were reported as militia on that occasion. Fifteen 
or twenty of them were taken prisoners. " Missing in ac- 
tion " is written against the names of ninety-six of tiie pri- 
vates, or not less than one-third of the whole strength of the 
regiment at that time. These men did not run — they were 
overwhelmed — falling pierced by bayonets — -for no gun was 
fired by the assaulting column. Many an early settler of 
Marlborough found resting place in the waters of " bloody 
pond," where, in the succeeding spring, arms, legs and 



The History of MarlborougJi. 1 1 

heads of decaying bodies were seen above the surface, pre- 
senting- a monstrous and sickening sight. 

Major DuBois was among the prisoners, losing his liberty 
in the effort to save a trumpeter from capture. Many were 
escaping by water, and the gallant major took a trumpeter 
who could not swim in tow. This delayed him so long, 
as he could swim but slowly with his burden, that he was 
captured by the British, and taken to New York, where he 
was detained a prisoner fc^r nearly a year, when he was ex- 
changed for a colonel. 

He resigned his commission December 29, 1779, accepting 
half pay for life instead ot the pay due him. During his 
absence in 1777 his residence in Marlborough was fired at by 
a British war vessel belonging to Vaughan's expedition, then 
on the way to the burning of Kingston. Three cannon balls 
have been found on the premises, which were fired at that 
time. C^ne of them was picked up only thirty years ago, 
bv Samuel Harris, lying near the surface, a few hundred yards 
west of Mrs. Pritchard's residence, more than half a mile 
from the river. Morey Wygant has preserved a tradition 
of what caused the British to fire at the house. The story, 
as given him when a boy, is that a lame man, familiarly 
known as " crooked-legged Jackson," saw a British vessel 
* lying in the river opposite Major DuBois' house, and crawl- 
ing down through the bushes, with his flint lock, sent a bullet 
into a card party in the cabin of the sloop. The red coats 
came out swearing, and not seeing anything but a house, 
adjusted their cannon and shot at that. But they didn't hit 
it, so " crooked-legged Jackson " was the hero of the blood- 
less battle. 

Col. DuBois was president of a court-martial, held near 
Wall Kill, October 14, 1777, on a spy, Daniel Taylor, who 
figured prominently in colonial history, having been captured 
with a letter from Clinton to Burgoyne, done up in a small 
silver ball or bullet, which he swallowed. They sentenced 
Taylor to death, and he was hanged on an apple tree near 
the village of Hurley. 

Marlborough narrowly missed becoming a port of entry 



12 Tlie History of Marlborough. 

in Major DuBois' time. An eastern company visited the 
place and tried to buy land at the dock, for the purpose of 
establishing a depot for whale oil. The Major did not see 
any money for him in the transaction, and the company went 
to Hudson, made that a port of entry, and did a large busi- 
ness for years. 

The names of more early settlers are found in the sub- 
scription list which was circidated to raise money to found 
the Presbyterian church. This list was started August 8, 
1763, and there were then living in the place representatives 
of the following old families: Carpenter, Cosman, DuBois, 
Fowler, Jackson, Knifhn, Mackcy, Merritt, Purdy, Quick, 
Quimby, Tooker, Woolsey and Wygant. 

Descendants ok Major DuBois. 

Lewis DuBois died in 1802. His second wife, Rachel, sur- 
vived him five years. He had a son Nathaniel, who died at 
the age of 29 years, and his remains lie in the cemetery on Main 
street. Nathaniel was married and left a daughter Hannah. 
The Major's other children were Lewis, Wilhelmus, Marga- 
ret, Mary and Rachel. The latter died before her father, 
but was married and left a daughter Cornelia. 

Lewis DuBois (2d) inherited his father's business^ qualified 
and activity. He (jwned about 900 acres of land to the north 
and west of Old Man's kill, and was in the milling and farm- 
ing business. He rebuilt the mill where Theodore Kniffin's 
large building now stands, on Landing street. His land 
was sold in 1842, when Samuel Harris purchased the 
old homestead, and 800 acres of ground, half of which was 
then virgin forest. Lewis DuBois married Anna Hull, of 
Marlborough, who died in 1865, at the age of 78. He was 
father ol twcUc children, two of whom died in inlancy. 
The others were Margaret R., who married Lewis \V. Young, 
a merchant of Nowbui'gh, and lives in Newburgh. Lewis, 
died in 1854, and Icit a son Charles, who now holds a posi- 
tion on a railroad in Kentuck>'. Amanda Harris, married 
Samuel Harris, and lived in Marlborough, dying in 1875. 




THE FIGHT AT FORT MONTGOMERY, OCT. 1777. 

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The History of MarlboroiigJi. 13 

Melissa, married William C. Gocldard, and now living in 
Brooklyn. Nathaniel H., now living in INIarlborough. Clem- 
entine W., married Reuben H. Rohrer, and lived and died in 
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Daniel L., did business in New- 
bursfh and Marlborcnia^h, afterwards went to St. Paul, Minn., 
where he died in 1862, but his remains are buried in Marl- 
borough. Cornelia B., married the late Dr. Nath. Deyo, and 
lived and died in Newburgh. Anna, married Henry E. Leh- 
man, of Lancaster, Pa., now dead. Marcus D., now living in 
New Windsor, Orange county, and carrying on a nursery 
and farming business. 

Nathaniel H. DuBois, the only one of this large family of 
children who remained in Marlborough, was born in 1815, 
served as a clerk in New York and Newburgh in 1832 to 
1834, after which he was called on to look after his father's 
afTairs for several years. He then followed farming for many 
years. June i, 1876, he bought the old paper mill property 
of Isaac Staples, , and established the Whitney Basket 
Company, managed by his son-in-law, Oliver B. Whitney, 
being the largest factory in the town, and fully described 
elsewhere. 

Wilhelmus DuBois, a son of the Major bv his second wife, 
owned a very large tract of land, and was among the first 
to settle in that portion of the town known as Greaves' 
avenue. Asa DuBois, Joseph Greaves, Frank Carpenter, 
A. G. Clark and J. Ward Wygant now own farms that formed 
a part of the tract originally owned by him. The late Cor- 
nelius DuBois, who lived a number of years in the house 
situate on Orange street, in the village of Marlborough, now 
owned by Mrs. Sarah Bailev, was a son of Wilhelmus, and 
did much for the advancement of the interests of the town. 
Cornelius Wygant, of the west neighborhood, is a grandson 
of Wilhelmus. 

Thp: Carpenter pAiNiiLy. 

Tn an old burying-ground in Lattingtown (now written 
Lattintown) on the Odell farm, is a tombstone upon which 



14 The History of MarIboroui:;Ji. 

is the following inscription : " In memory of Joseph Carpen- 
ter, first settler ot this place and planter of this orchard. 
Departed this life July ii, 1766, aged 61 years, 3 mos. and 
6 days." Although the stone is begrimed by age and the 
lettering almost obliterated, enough is shown to establish 
the fact that Joseph Carpenter was among the first to select 
Marlborough as his abode. The family records say that he 
first settled in Marlborough in 1753, and that his wife's name 
was Sarah. They came from Glen Cove, L. I., and settled 
in Lattintown, where they spent the greater portion of their 
lives. In 1778 Benjamin Carpenter came from England and 
settled near his brother in Lattintown. 

Wright Carpenter was born March 2, 1749, and was the 
son of Joseph and Sarah Carpenter. He married Anne 
Smith, sister of Capt. Anning Smith, of this town, July 5, 
1772, she being then onlv sev^enteen years of age. Little is 
known of Wright Carpenter, except that he left a good 
name to a large posterity. He had thirteen children : Luff, 
born May 4, 1773, died 1813 ; Asa, born May 16, 1774; 
Mobury, born April 25, 1775, died Jan. i, 185 1 ; Mary, born 
March 27, 1777; Leonard, born March 8, 1779; Anne, born 
May 15, 1780; Joseph, Aug. 22, 1781; Sarah, born May 2, 
1783; Ruth, born Se])t. 14, 1788, died Mar. 30, 1840; Latting, 
born Sept. 11, 1789, died Nov. 15, 1848; Hannah, born July 
31, 1792, died Aug. 4, 1834; Julia, born Jan. 3, 1794; 
Leonard, born Dec. 25, 1798. 

Mobury Carpenter, the third son of Wright Carpenter, 
left a greater impress on Marlborough than any of the elder 
members of the family. He was a busy man, and erected 
the house at HampttMi, where .Vlcxander Young now lives. 
There he lived while he was in partnership with his brother 
Jose))h, in a store at the dock. He also sailed sloops to 
New York. In 1843 h^' built the store noAv occupied by 
James Carpenter ik. Son, and kept a general country store. 
He was a man of genial temperament, being universally liked- 
Joseph Carpenter left the store at the dock after some years, 
and settled in Cornwall, where he died. 



The History of J\Tar /borough. 1 5 

Latling Carpenter married Rebecca Cahill July 10, 1816, 
and was father to the Leonard Carpenter, who died in 1869, 
and was father of Frank Carpenter, now residing west 
of Marlborough. He was also father of Mrs. Margaret 
A., wife of Gershom Thorn, now living on Bingham street, 
Marlborough. He died Nov. 14, 1848. The record of his 
famil}' bible gives his children as follows: Hannah Jane, 
born April 19, 1819, died in 1853; Charlotte Eliza, born Aug. 
9, 1820; Margaret Ann, born March 2^, 1822; and Leonard 
Wright, born Oct. 22, 1826. 

Leonard Wright Carpenter married Ann i\Litilda Fate 
April 5, 1849. ^^ ^'"^^^ *^*^ ^ sloop in his younger days, after- 
wards went to New York city and died there. 

Mobur}- Carpenter married ilnn Merritt in 1800. His 
children were Leonard C, born Sept. 18, 1801, and died next 
year; Josiah W., born Sept. 17, 1802, died in 1843. ^^ mar- 
ried ist, Maria D. Purdy, by whom he had two daughters, 
Mrs. Wm. Barnes, of Middle Hope, and Mrs. Chas. ^\. Pur- 
dy, of Marlborough; 2d, Cecelia Caverly, bv whom he left 
one daughter, Mrs John Oddy, of Marlborough. 

Leonard S., born Oct. 28, 1804, married Eliza 13. Purdy in 

1832, died 1874; leaving two children, Dennis, since dead, 
and Mrs. Hester D. Barnes, of Middle Hope. 

Alathea, born April 13, 1806, died about 1881 ; she married 
Michael Wygant in 1826, and had five children: Mrs. Har- 
riet Lawrence, Mrs. Asbur}' Wygant, Mary C. Wygant, Ed- 
ward J. Wygant and Dennis M. Wygant, all living in Marl- 
borough at this writing. 

Chas. L., born June 8, 1808, married Elizabeth Hicks in 

1833, died March 15, 1869, lea\ing four daughters and one 
son, living in New York; Ann Adilia, born Jan. 30, 181 1, 
never married and living in New York ; James, born Dec. 
14, 1 8 14, keeping store in Marlborough, with his son. He 
married Charlotte Fowler Sept. 15, 185 1, and has two chil- 
dren, Mary A. and James S. Carpenter. 

William Carpenter, of Milton, is not closely connected 
with the Carpenters of Marlborough. He traces direct de- 



1 6 TJic History of Marlborough. 

scent to Ezra Carpenter, of Wales, Eng-land, born in 1550. 
His son Richard, born in 1593, had a son Ephraim, born 
June 17,1627, in Wales. He came to America in 1678, and had 
a son Ephraim. who had a son Ashmead, born Aug. Ii, 1689, 
Ashmead's second son was Benedict, born Jan. 11, 1715, and 
lived in Westchester. Benedict was father to Elijah Car- 
penter, who had a son Haddock Carpenter, of Plattekill, and 
he was father to William Carpenter, wJio came from Platte- 
kill to Milton 34 years ago. Here he became possessor of 
a fruit farm, and practiced surveying. William married a 
Flagler, and his children are Caroline, who married Her- 
bert Sabin, and settled at Amherst ; Mary E., who married 
Chas. S. Pope, and settled in Manchester, Me.; Annie M. 
married George L. Car3\ of Gansevoort, Saratoga count}' ; 
Charles M., who married Julia Wilkelow, and lives in Lloyd ; 
Enoch F., who resides with his father in Milton, and carries 
on fruit farming and survej'ing. 

The Hallock Family. 

Edward Hallock, the first of the name to settle within the 
precinct of Marlborough, was a descendant of Peter Hallock, 
one of the flock of pilgrims who located with Rev. John 
Voung in Connecticut in 1640. Edward Hallock was a sea- 
faring man and owned several vessels, all but one of which 
were destroyed by French cruisers in the troubles between 
that nation and the English. He then brought his himily 
from Long Island, and December 31, 1760, came to Milton — 
then New Marlborough. The party landed on a rock, which 
to-day is known as " Forefather's I-iock," and bears the in- 
scription " E. I lallock, 1760." The old landmark stands on 
land now owned by Christopher Cham})lin, on the line of 
the West Shore R. k. 

Edward ILdlock engaged in farming and built a grist mill 
and saw mill, parts of which arc in existence to-day, and the 
property of Nathaniel Hallock. He had a brother Sanuiel, 
who afterwards located in New Marlborough. Samuel came 
to Milton a short time after his brother Edward. He pur- 



TJie History of Marlborougji. I^' 

chased l,ooo acres and located above Milton, the house he 
built and lived in beini^ still standing and occupied by Mrs. 
Conklin. His children were Elijah, Clementine, Deborah, 
Amy, Foster and James S. Ani}- married Benjamin Sands, 
and was the mother of David Sands, vSr. Foster married 
Martha Young, and their children and grandchildren are 
now living in town. George, son ot Fostei", had a son, the 
present George W. Hallock, living in Milton. 

Edward Hallock's famil}' was large, he having two sons 
and ten daughters. They first located in a little hcjuse at the 
head of a lane running to the river, at a point afterwards 
occupied by Jacob Wood's ship yard, but shortly purchased 
land of Sukie Bond, and erected a substantial homestead on 
the ground where Mrs. Phebe H., widow of Isaac S. Hallock, 
now resides. Edwaixl Hallock was a Friends' preacher, and 
a man of more than ordinary gifts. He came of a famil}- of 
preachers, and had descendants who were preachers. He 
died in November, 1809, aged 92 years, 5 months. His sons 
were Edward, jr., and James, and ten daughters, viz: Han- 
nah, who married a Smith ; Dorcas, marn'ed John Young, 
(coming to Milton, and locating on what is now the Lyons 
place, about a year before her lather came) ; Clementine 
married David Sands, (a Friends' preacher of note, and an- 
cestor to David Sands, now living on North Main street^ 
Marlborough) ; Phebe, Catharine, Philena. Amy died young; 
Martha married John Thorn, and was mother to Mrs. John 
Buckley, sr. ; Sarah married Henrv Hull, and both were 
preachers in Society of Friends; Mary^ married Richard 
Carpenter. Nine of these ladies lived to a great age. 

Edward, jr., lived may years in Albany, being a ship 
builder and a man of rare mechanical abilities. He died in 
1S50, near Newbui^gh, at the age of 96, having four sons : 
Edward and Jonas, who had no children ; Silas and Epenetus, 
of Constantia, N. V., father of David, \"ictor and Edward. 
Miss Susan Coi^n, now li\'ing in Milton, is a granddaughter 
of Edward, jr. 

James was a preacher in the Society of Friends, and mar- 



1 8 Tlic History of MarlborougJi. 

ried Elizabeth Townsend, of Cornwall. He lived on the 
old homestead, which he built anew in 1806. His business was 
farming and running the grist mill and saw mill. He died in 
l82oaged58,and had six sons, Nicholas, Townsend, Nehemiah, 
William, Edward and Nathaniel ; and four daughters, Han- 
nah, Philadelphia, Phebe and Martha. Nicholas was father 
of 14 children, among them Dr. Robt. T., of New York, 
James and Nehemiah, of Utica, and Samuel T., of Riceville, 
of Pa. He lived in Milton, (Opposite Nathaniel Hallock's, 
in his earl}' and afterwards in his latter da3's, and his re- 
mains are buried in the Friend's cemeteiT in this town. 
William's sons, all of whom are deceased, James, John and 
William, settled in Mendon, N. Y. Of these James onlv is 
now living. Edward was father of Valentine H. and Nich- 
olas, of Queens, L. I., and Isaac S., of Milton. Nathaniel 
was father to Thomas B., of Milton, and is now living at the 
advanced age (A 84 years, at his home, close to the old 
homestead ot his grandfather. He has been a busy man, 
following farming the greater part of his life. In religion 
he is a Friend, being a great admirer of Elias Hicks, the 
celebrated preacher, whom he heard in his 3^ounger days. 
He first attended meeting at the Friends' meeting 
house on Main street, the first time the building was 
used, having been built in 1806, when he was four jears 
old. He was also of Quaker origin on his mother's side, 
his grandmother's great-grandmother having came over 
with William Penn, and his great-great-grandmother being 
Philidelphia Mastgrs, the first white female child born in the 
City of Philadelphia. The name of Philadelphia has been 
borne by many of the Hallocks and is still in the famil)'. 
Portions of the wedding dress of the first Philadelphia are 
preserved among the relics of the Hallocks. Philadelphia 
Hallock, daughter of James, married James Sherman, and 
has h)urchiklren living: Hannah, Isaac, Townsend H. and 
John. 

Nathaniel Hallock is hither of Thomas 13.. of Milton; \l\\/.- 
abeth H., wife of John Sherman, and Marv A., wile ol Ar- 



TJic History of Marlborough. I9 

thur D. Foote. The latter is the Mary Hallock Foote, 
kncjwn to niajjazine readers as the authoress of " Led Horse 
Claim " and other mining- stories. 

Phebe Hallock, daughter of James Hallock, married John 
Mann, of New York, but afterwards settled in Marlborough. 
Her children were: the late James H., of Po'keepsie ; Sarah 
F., wife of Isaac T. Ketcham, Jericho, L. I.; John T., of High- 
land ; Anna, wife of Jacob Smith ; Capt. Nehemiah H., who 
was killed at Fort Royal, Va., and Martha, wife of John 
Hicks, Jericho, L. I. 

The daughters of James Hallock all married and moved 
away from Milton, but the youngest, Martha, wife of David 
Ketcham, of Long Island, afterwards returned to this town, 
and still lives here, being at this writing 87 years old. She 
was mother to Edward H. and John T. Ketcham. Both of 
them lost their lives in the struggle against slavery, but have 
a living monument in Ketcham Post, No. 495, G. A. R., 
named after them, and whose survivors annually decorate 
the graves of the fallen heroes. 

Leonard Smith's Descendants. 

The Smith family were among the early settlers in the 
northern part of the town. About the year 1762 Leonard 
Smith and his five sons, Anning, Luff, Nehemiah Ludlam, 
John and Leonard, and two daughters, came here from Long 
Island and purchased land north of what is now the village 
of Milton. Leonard Smith was at this tii^e quite aged, and 
dependent on his S(jns. In 1763 he was chosen collector of 
quit rents in the patent where he lived. He was also path- 
master. The family tradition is that their progenitors in 
Long Island were called the " Bull Smith's," because the 
original settler had purchased all the land that he could ride 
around, on a bull's back, in one day. 

All the Smith brothers were men of capacity and enter- 
prise, though the eldest, Anning Smith, was certainly the 
busiest and most pushing of the family. He built Smith 



20 The History of Marlborough. 

pond, where there is a fall of water over 120 feet in 
height. Here he started a woolen factory, a saw mill and grist 
mill, and kej)t a store, carried on farming and boating. He 
was also the hrst justice of the peace in Marlborough, being 
appointed by Gov. George Clinton. In this position he 
served many years. Several times he served on the Board 
of Supervisors. He married Eleanor Clark, of Cornwall, 
and had one child, when the War of the Revolution called 
him to serve his country. He organized a com^jany of vol- 
imteers, was chosen captain, and saw good service. It was 
he who laid out the back road, running for two and a half 
miles through his own land, which was 1,500 acres in extent. 
Captain Smith w^as also one of the original trustees of the 
Marlborough Presbyterian church. He died of vellow fever 
in 1802. 

The second brother. Luff Smith, was also a prominent 
man, and lived in the south part of the town. He was an 
enthusiastic Methodist, being a leader of the Marlborough 
class in the Newburgh circuit in 1798. He resided in New 
York city several years, and went to the state legislature 
from there. He died Avithout children. 

The third brother, Nehemiah Ludlam Smith, was also 
called u])on to serve in the legislature several terms from 
IHster Co., and died childless. 

The youngest brother, Leonard, became a militia ofihcer, 
after the Revolution. In 1798 he was a lieut. colonel, and 
from 1808 to 1812 he wns colonel, and in [813 brigadier gen- 
eral. He lived and died in Orange comity. John Smith 
died on the Milton properfv, leaving a large family of child- 
ren. Anne Smith man icd Wright Cari)enter juh' 5, 1772. 
She was a daughter to Leonard and Ruth vSmith, and was 
born Aug. 25, 1755. She was grandmother to James Carpen- 
ter, of Marlborough. The other sister married a Wood, and 
was mother to John and Jacob Wood. John W^ood Avas 
great-grandtat her lo Alon/o Wood, now conunissioner of 
roads of Marlboiough. Jacob Wood was a shij) carpenter. 

Captain Anning Smith had five sons: Eliphalet (father of 




British Gun Boats firing at Cajii. /Vmiing .smith's 

residence, Milton, in 1777. (Page 21 .)> 



The History of Marlborough. 21 

Lewis), Nathan, Elnathaii, Clark, Lewis and Anning, (father 
of L. Harrison) ; and six daughters, Lydia, who married 
Solomon Ferris ; Sarah, who married Griffin Ransome ; 
Phebe, who married Joseph Ransome ; Ruth, who married 
Jacob Deyo ; Catharine, who married Nathaniel W. Chitten- 
den, and Eleanor, who married Dr. Wm. H. Gedney, sr. 

When Captain Smith died his will was written by a doctor, 
who omitted the wcjrds " heirs and assigns" after the names 
of the legatees. This was discovered about twenty years 
after his death, and a law suit resulted, by which the younger 
children did not fare as well as the older. Nevertheless, 
x\nning Smith, jr., the youngest son, acquired the old home- 
stead, built in 1770, which had been fired on by a British 
\var vessel of Vaughan's expedition on its trip to the burn- 
ing of Kingston in 1777. Several of the cannon balls then 
fired are now in the possession of descendants of the family. 

Anning Smith, jr., lived on the old homestead, farmed and 
milled, and built several sloops. He died in his 35th year. 

The family is now much scattered. The Ransomes and 
Deyos went to Western New York, and the only one of 
them known in Marlborough, is the Rev. Perry Deyo, of 
New Jersey, who owns the (jld homestead in Lloyd. He 
is a son of Jacob and Ruth Deyo. 

Lewis Smith, son of Eliphalet, lives in Marlborough, on 
the west end of the old Smith homestead. He married 
Clarissa Quick, and their children were L. Nathan, Adaline, 
Laura Amanda, A. J. Madison and Hannah Ellen. Adaline 
married Amos Dresser, and had one son, Amos. Laura 
Amanda married Isaac Bloomer, and her children were Mel- 
vin D., S[)encer and (^rrin. A. J. Madison Smith married 
Phebe Jane Elting, and has a son Elting. Hannah Ellen 
married William Woodward Cary, their children being 
Helen M., Adaline S., lona and Maria. A. J. Madison is 
the only one of the family of Lewis Smith living at this 
writing. He was for many years engaged in the mercan- 
tile business in Milton. 

The Smith family have always been Democrats, and al- 
ways will be, as long as Democracy exists. 



22 The History of Marlborough. 

Dr. William H. Gedncy, jr., son oi Eleanor (Smith) Ged- 
ney, is a retired physician, occupying a beautiful residence 
in the extreme northeast corner of the town, (part of old 
Smith homestead.) 

L. Harrlson Smith, 

grandson of Capt. Anning Smith, was born seventy-five 
years ago on almost the verv same spot on which he now 
resides. When Smith was yet but a boy he was employed 
as clerk in the store of Jesse I. Conklin, at Milton village, and 
here for two years he devoted his attention to the sale of 
general merchandise to the villagers and farmers of the 
vicinity. But with increase of years came an ambition to 
launch out in the larger world, and we next hnd him a clerk 
in the large dr}^ goods house of L. S. Chittenden tS: Co., of 
New Y(jrk city. After three years' service with them he 
had so commended himself to the mercantile world that he 
was empl()3'cd by the firm of M. E. Judson t\: Co., to go to 
Florida to establish and manage a branch concern of that 
house. In a few years, however, we find him back in the 
Metropolis of the New World, still pursuing his favorite 
calling of merchandising. For a time he was engaged in 
the manufactun^ of gold leaf, on his own account. Some 
time in or abcnit 1840 he returned to his native town, and 
with his cousin, A. J. M. Smith, opened a store on the dock, 
where for many years they did a thriving trade as dealers in 
general merchandise. The Milton (jf that day was far more 
active and busy than the village as w'e find it now. There 
were three if not four stcjres in the village and two on the 
dock. Sands & Lock wood maintained a regular freighting 
line to New York, and the steamboat " Si)lendid," of Mil- 
lard & Mills' line, sailed (Uiily from the place. 

In the fall of 1852 L. H. Smith was the Democratic candi- 
date for member of Assembly in the Second Assembly Dis- 
trict, of Ulster Coim'y. He was elected and took his seat 
in the Legislature of 1853. In those days, a generation 



TJic History of Marlborough. 23 

ag-one, it was considered an honor sought by the first ability 
in either party to become a member of that branch of the 
Legislature, in the session (which will long be remember- 
ed as a turbulent one) in which the party to which our sub- 
ject belonged seemed disposed to make shipwreck of its 
future and to drop out of existence, it is but simple truth to 
say that Smith was the leader on his side, and that to 
his political sagacity, his sterling common sense, his fearless- 
ness and aggressive integrity, more than to that of any other 
member of that body, the Democratic part}' owes its exist- 
ence in this state to-day. And this fact was and ever since 
has been freely acknowledged by his party. He has been 
respeatedly besought to take nominations f(^r offices and 
has persistently refused — sheriff, county clerk, senator, 
all have been within his reach, and all have been put aside 
by him gently but firmly. 

Tliis ma}^ be owing in a large measure to the fact that in 
1855 li^' formed a life partnership with Maria L. Roe, 
and he has found his domestic relations so pleasant that he 
has been unwilling to interrupt their gentle course by mixing- 
in the turmoil, and (alas we must add in these later days) the 
tilth and mire of active politics. 

The fruits of his marriage have been two sons, Fred. H., 
now the postmaster at Milton, and L. Harry, jr., the Depu- 
ty Collector of U. S. Internal Revenue for the 4th Division 
of the 14th District, N. Y. These young men have yet 
" their spurs to win," but, as the offsprings of such parents, 
they can hardly fail to secure the confidence of the general 
|)ublic. 

In 1854 Smith was appointed Inspector of Customs, 
which office he retained until 1862, when a change of ad- 
ministration brought about, as was proper from a political 
standpoint, a change in the incumbency of his office. 

An incident in Smith's life, while he resided in N. Y., 
which is not generally known to his neighbors, is so charac- 
teristic of the man and so redounds to the credit of his heart, 
that it may be appropriately told here. In the senatorial 



24 TJie History of Marlborough. 

district of which he was a resident, a young and promising 
lawyer, and a personal friend of his, sougiit the nomination 
for state senator, and " Harry," or " The General " as he is 
frequently called by his friends, pledged him a support. 
When the nominating convention met, to the surprise of 
both Smith and his friend, the candidate, the convention 
nominated Smith. It was unsolicited and unexpected. He 
was beyond question much better equipped for the office 
than the candidate and far more popular in the district. But, 
true to his word and the demands of friendship, he declined, 
and when it was offered the second time he again declined, 
and actually forced his friend's nomination and election. 
The friend has since acquired a state and national reputa- 
tion, and has amassed great wealth, but he can never be 
richer than is our friend in the proud consciousness that he 
was never false to his word, and has never been of those 
who " crook the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may 
follow fawning." 

In 1863 Smith opened a coal and limiber yard at Mil- 
ton landing, and continued in that business until* 1881, when 
he withdrew entirely from business. His friends wish his 
health was more promising now than it is, but his mind is 
as vigorous, his heart as buoyant, his friendship as warm, 
his counsels as wise, and himself as enthusiastic and earnest 
in everything that is for the welfare of the general i)ublic 
or incbvidual friends as ever. 



MILITARY RECORD. 



MyVRLIiOROUGH IN THE REVOLUTION. 

The storm)' days when our grandfathers fought lor libert}' 
did not pass by Marlborough. The community was mainly 
loyal, though here as elsewhere Tories were found. Among 
those who signed .the pledge of fealty to the Continental 
Congress and the Constitution were about 250 from New 
Marlborough (which included Plattekill). Among them 
were the following, wdiose names are still loimd among the 
residents of the town, showing how many residents can 
trace descent to the loyal of Marlborough in 1776: 

Benjamin Carpenter, Lewis DuBois, Jacob Wood, John Woolsey, MicliacI Wy- 
gant, Richard Carpenter, ^Vright Carpenter, Henry Lockwood, Stejihen Purdy, Jacob 
Kent, William Bloomer, Isaac Cropsey, Peter Barrian, Stephen Case, Annanias Val- 
entine, Zadock Lewis, Jacob Dayton, Joseph Caverly,-Samuel Mackey, Jurian Mackey, 
(Gilbert Bloomer, Joseph liloomer, Andrew Young, David Mackey, Nathaniel Ilar- 
court, John Wygant, John (^uick, Thomas Quick, Israel Tuthill, Jeriah Rhodes, Jona- 
than Woolsey, Daniel Eloomer, Joli Wood, Peter Caverly, Joshua Loclv\\ood,Tliomas 
Quick, William Quick, William Caverly, Henry Decker, James Merritt, William 
Purdy, John Scott, John MajcJcey, Matthew Wygant, Alexander Cropsey, Andrew 
Cropsey, Joseph Carpenter, William Woolsey, Adam Cropsey, George Woolsey, 
Eneas Quimby, Richard Woolsey, Alex. Mackey, sr., Zephaniah Woolsey,' Nathaniel 
Hull, Chas. Mackey, Nathaniel Quiml)y, Benjamin Woolsey, Hcndrick Deyo, Nehe- 
miah Smith, Henry Scott, David Merritt, Joseph Bloomer, Caleb Merritt, Thomas 
Merritt, Gabriel Merritt, Jacol) Canniff, Levi Quimby, James Quimby, Thomas Wy- 
gant, lliiimas_^Iackgy, William Wygant, Josiah Merritt, Henry Cropsey, Samuel 
Ilallock, Cornelius Wood, Nehemiah Carpenter, Leonard Smith, Jehiel Clark, Absa- 
lom Case, Anning Smith, John Stilwell, Leonard Smith, jr.. Luff Smith, Joseph Car- 
penter. 

Among the Tories whose adherence to the crowm was 
obnoxious to these loyal men, was one Samuel Dcvinc, whose 
reckless expression of opinion got him into trouble, as the 
following old jiapers show : 



26 The History of Marlboroitgh. 

" Die Veneris, January 12, 1776. — In Committee of Safet)', 
Ulster County. 

" Stephen Se3'mour, of full a<^e, being sworn on the Holy 
Evangelists this 4th day of January, 1776, saith that on Mon- 
day evening, the first instant, at the house of Daniel 
McGiden, he heard Samuel Devine repeatedly drink damna- 
tion to the Congress and all the Whigs; that last year was 
Whig year, but this would be Tory 3^ear ; and likewise that 
all the Whigs would be hanged in the spring ; and further- 
more called the Whigs a pack of damned rebels ; and further 
saith that he woidd not obey his ofhcers more than he would 
a dog." 

" Ulster County — ITenry Lockwood, being of full age, etc.? 
saith that on his way home from Newburgh, he met with 
some persons, among whom was a certain Samuel Devine, 
who there asked him if he did not know there was a reward 
for taking uj) a committee man and sending him on board 
the man-(jf-war ; who there threatened to take this deponent, 
he being one of the committee of Marlborough precinct, 
and that he would have ^^"40 in cash, or 50 acres of land for 
delivering him on board the man-of-war, etc." 

Devine was released on this charge, but in 1777 was 
arrested, court-martialed and sentenced to be himg. He 
was pardoned under the gallows by Gov. Clinton. 

Some of these Tories joined the British troops, and were 
with Vaughan's Expedition which fired at the houses of 
Major Lewis DuBois and Ca])t. Anning Smith, and itissu])- 
j)oscd that they pointed out their houses to the -gimners. 

There are no records to show what soldiers from Marl- 
borough fought h)r their country. Major Lewis DuBois 
and Capt. Anning wSmith were the most ])rominent. John 
VVygant, David Brush, Amos Bradbury, John Rhodes, Wm. 
Martin, William Woolsey, Henry Cr()i)sey, John Kniffin, 
Jacob Gillis, Reuben Tooker, Joseph Carpenter, Daniel 
KnifHn, Jehiel Clark, Daniel Purdy and George Merritt are 
known to have been enrolled on the side of liberty, most, of 
them being in Capt. Ai'thur Smith's comj)any, which was 



The History of Marlborough. 27 

raised in the North District of Newburi^h precinct, which 
territory included Marlborough and Plattekill. 

Col. Hasbrouck's regiment, in which Lewis DuBois served 
as maj(jr, also contained a good many from New Marlbor- 
ough, and during the conllicts at forts Clinton and Mont- 
gomery it is reported that the militia from Southern Ulster 
suffered heavily. Some of them were in service under Major 
Lewis DuBois at Fort Constitution in October, 1777. It is 
not kncnvn that any of them performed service except along 
the Hudson and vicinity, which demanded a large force for 
protection. 

Major Lewis DuBois' services are enlarged on in ancjther 
place. But little is knowai of Capt. Anning vSmith's military 
career, beyond that his record w^as praiseworthy. Nehc- 
miah Carpenter was quartermaster under Majcjr Lewis 
DuBois, being commissioned Nov. 21, 1776. lie was taken 
prisonci- at Fort Montgomery in October, 1777, and after- 
wards exchanged and promoted to lieutenant. 

Capt. Belkna[)'s company, of Newburgh, is su}»posed to 
have received recruits from New Marlb(jrough. On the 
7th of October, 1776, the company first mustered for duty at 
the house of Mrs. Ann DuBcjis, in Marlborough. 

After the War of the Revolution was over militia com- 
panies were kept up. One was organized under the com- 
mand of William Acker in 1804, and continued in existence 
U) 1838. It was composed of members in both Orange and 
Ulster, and saw service on Long Island in 1812-13. Capt. 
Acker was succeeded by Nathaniel DuBois, wh(j served 
several years. The last captain of the.C(jmpany was Robert 
D. Mapes, of Marlborough. 

War of 18 12. 

Very few from Marlborough participated in this struggle, 
those who did being in Acker's militia company. The only 
names preserved are William Smith, John Kniffin, Gideon 
L. Keator, Daniel J. Merritt, Francis Vandebogert, Thomas 
Warren, Bernard Wygant, and several of the Rhodes family. 



28 Tlic History of IMarlboroiigh. 

Marli!urougii's REruESENTATivEsiN the War oe the 
Rebeeliun. 

The following- is believed to be a lull list of those who 
re[)rescnted the town in the War of the Rebellion, and is 
taken from the History of Ulster Co., being- drawn Irom the 
miister-in rolls of the county, the census return of 1865, and 
the town register of 1865 : 

James Anderson, enlisted Nov. 14, 18(32, 15(')tli Regt., Co. G. 

Sidney Barnhart, eulisted Sept. 8, 1SC4, 'Jlst Eegt., Co. I. 

Jacob Berriau, enlisted Oct. 15, 18G2, 156tli Rest., Co. G. 

Reuben R. Bloomer, enlisted Au^-. Gth, 18G1, Gtli N. Y. 

Oscar B. Bloomer, enlisted Gth Regt. 

James Bailey, eulisted Aug. IG, ISGi, 7tb Regt., Co. A. 

Walter M. Bailey, enlisted Oct. 24, 18G1, 7tli Regt., Co A. 

Clias. A. Bciiley, enlisted Oct. 24, 18G1, 7th Regt., Co. A. 

Thomas Brown, enlisted Aug. 27, 18G2, 15Gth Regt., Co G. 

Patrick Conley, enlisted Mch. 21, 18G1, 5Gth Regt., Co. A. 

Jos. D. Cassidy, enlisted Aug. 28, 18G2, 15Gth Regt., Co. G. 

Henry Cassidy, enlisted Oct. 18G2. 

David C. Cross'nary, enlisted Mch. 14. 18G2, 20th Regt., Co. A. 

John H. Crossbary, eulisted 1862, 2ULh Regt., Co. A, died in service. 

George W. Detmar, enlisted Aug. 30, 18G2. Died at .\ndersonville. 

David Davis, enlisted Aug. 1802, I3i)th Regt., Co. A. 

i^rris G. Davis, enlisted Aug. G, 18G2, 120th Regt., Co. A. 

Daniel Davis, enlisted Aug. G, 18G2, died at H>ellelsle. 

Beiijamiu V". C. DeWitt, eulisted Aug. 27, 18G2, ir)(;th Regt., Co. G. 

Peter E. DeWitt, eulisted SeiJt. IS), 1SG2, 15Gth Regt., Co. G. 

George J. Fowler, enlisted Aug. 18, 1SG2, 15Gtb Regt., Co. A, died 
in service. 

Luther P. Halt, enlisted Aug. G, 18G1, 1st Cav., Co. H, died in An- 
dersonville Aug. 10, 18G4. 

John Harding, eidisted Sept. 12, 18G2, lOGth Regt.. Co. G. 

John Keuney, enlisted Oct. 18, 18G2, 5th Regt., Co. B. 

Edward H. Ketcham, lieut., enlisted .uig. 20, 18G2, liOth Regt., Co. 
A., killed at Gettysburg. 

John T. Ketcliam, lieut , enlisted Eel). 4, 18G3, 4th Kegt , died in Lib- 
by iirison Oct. 8, 18G3. 

John McVay, enlisted Aug. 20, 18(i2, I'llith Regt., Co. G. 

Wni. Miller, enlisted Sei)t. 2, 18G2, l-^Gth Regt., Co. G. 

George H. Miller, enlisted Eeb. 2;, 18G4, 20th Regt., Co. G, diediu 
service. 

John McCarty, enlisted May 5, 1802, 1st Regt., died ol' wounds. 

John H. Mackey, eulisted Aug. 12, 1802. EiOth Regt.,'LCo. A. died in 
service. 



The History of Marlborough. 29 

Charles Lee Mackey, enlisted Sept. 1, 1864, r28th Regt., Co. H. 

David F. Mackey, enlisted Sept. 20, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 

Morris Lee, enlisted Aug. 10, 1862, 12()tli Regt., Co. A. 

Wm. J. Purdy, lieut., enlisted Nov. U, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 

Peter V. L. Purdy, enlisted May 3, 1861, 5th Regt., Co. E. 

Alonzo S. Petit, enlisted Nov. 18G1, 5th Regt., Co. E. 

Stephen J. Power, enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, 6th Regt., Co. L died in 
service. 

George W. Quimby, enlisted Sept. 20, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 

John D. Quiaiby, enlisted Sept. 19, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 

Thos. Elliot, enlisted Aug. 15, 1861, 73rd Regt., Co. H. 

Clias H. Free, enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, 6th Regt., Co. I, died of wounds 
received at Cedarville. 

George Palmateer, enlisted Jan. 5, 1864, 156th Regt., Co. E. 

Stephen Rhodes, enlisted Sept. 3, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 

George Ryer, enlisted Aug. 27, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 

Reuben H. Rose, enlisted Aug. 8, 1862, 6th Regt., Co. I. 

Aaron Rhodes, enlisted Mch. 11, 1862, 20th Regt., Co. A. 

Theodore Rhodes, enlisted Aug. 1862, 156th Regt., Co. A. 

Walter Rhodes, enlisted Aug. 1861, 20th Regt. 

George W. Smith, etilisted May 1, 1862, 19th Regt., Co. I. 

Henry Scott, enlisted Aug. 6, 1861, 6th Regt. 

Isaac Lewis, enlisted April 19, 1861, 3rd Regt., Co. B. 

Phineas H. Smith, enlisted Sept. 2, 1862, 1561 h Regt., Co, G. 

Isaac Theals, enlisted April 21, 1864, 98th Regt., Co. C. 

Peter Terwilliger, enlisted Aug. 22, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G, died in 
service, July 30, 1S63. 

Jeremiah Terwilliger, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. A. 

James Terwilliger, enlisted Sept. 18, 1862, 168th Regt. 

Matthew Terwilliger, enlisted Sept. 30, 1862, I5()tli Regt., Co. G. 

Daniel Tuthill, enlisted Nov. 1861, 5th Regt., Co. E. 

Samuel Valentine, enlisted Aug. 3, 1864, 16th Regt , Co. M. 

John H. Valentine, enlisted April 14, 1861, 3d Regt., Co. B. 

David M. Weed, enlisted Sept. 6, 1862, 156th Regt., Co G. 

James N. Whims, enlisted Sept. 12, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 

James B. Williams, enlisted Jan. 27, 1861, 156th Regt., Co. G. 

John Wordin,-enlisted Sept. 12, 1862, 156th Regt.. Co. G. 

Isaac Fletcher Williams, enlisted Sept. 8. 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 

Charles C. Wygant, enlisted Aug. 20, 1862, died at Salisbury Prison, 
Nov. 30, 1864. 

John S. Wood, enlisted Aug. 1863, 15th Regt., Co. B. 

Chas. L. Woolsey, enlisted Ai>ril 23, 1861, 5th Regt., Co. E. 

C. M. Woolsey, lieut., enlisted Oct. 6, 1864. 

William York, enlisted Aug. 3, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. A. 

John 11. Dingee, enlisted July 25, 1862, 121th Regt., Co, A. 

Wm. H. Duncan, enlisted Aug. 10, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. A. 

Janaes C, Brewster, enlisted Sept. 20, 1.862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 



30 The History of Mar/borough. 

James M. Beosou, riuth Kegt., Co. A. 
R. F. Coutaiit, eulisled Aug. 22, 1861, lOHth Kegt., Co. G. 
Cevouia Lounsbery, eulisied Jan. 19, 1863,98th Regt., Co. B. 
Johu lleiidricksou, eulisted Aug. 24, 1864, lUtli Regt., Co. A. 
Lewis Hortibeck, eulisted Sei)t. 2U, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 
Isaac N. Hornbeel<, eulisted Sept. 15, 1862, 156th Regt., Co. G. 
Augustus Clark. Jesse Lyous, Jouathan M. Stai)les, W. H. Dimsey, 
Johu B. Ball, Alexander Coe, Geo. Rowley, James B. Ellis, Audrew S 
Ward, James F. Giddts, Jt)hu C. Ward, James I. Fitzgerald, Andrew 
Muadt, Thomas Morrou, Jacob Right uiag, Eli Dark, Joseph Todd, 
Abram Alexander, Audiew Heiehan, Calvin Parker, Robt. Thoiuton, 
Jesse W. Staght, \V. A. Clark, Wm. Buckley, Thomas O. Brieu, Hugh 
McGitigh, George Goldsuiith,Nehemiaii Fiear, Jerome Scouteu, Moses 
Mundlcson, George Holmes. Reuben P. Taylor, James Grach, Daniel 
Sullivan, .Sison D. Trew, Frederick Lewis, Alfred DeDonnel , Wm. I. 
Phelon, Wm. Hasker, VV. A. Palmer, Joseph Fearen, James Carney, 
W. I. Reed, Thos. McArtney, Wm. Fleming, Chas. Chatt, James Mar- 
tin, Carl Kamiile, Thos. Hevey, Oscar Lutz, John Decker, George T. 
Fland, Chas. Piirtiidge, Patrick Mc Becker, Samuel Myer, Wm. Tee, 
John Miller, John Stakley, James Dunn, Joseidi Colnell, Wm. Duffy, 
Thomas Brown, James Debricina, Frederick Stearns, James Morris, 
Chas. M. Sanley, Wm. Minner, Daniel Sarli^', James Riley, Henry 
INIarcy, Waller Sharp, Geo. E Terin, George Peiidleton, James Smith, 
Thomas Ryna, James Many, Wm. Stillwell, John Kelley, John 
O'Brien, John Ryan, Oscar Collier, Thomas Marr, Patrick Murphy, 
James Dryer, Robert Burke. Daniel Nevins, enlisted Oct 18, 1861. 

Daniel B. Martin, enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. A. 

Hezekiali Martin, enlisted Aug 11, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. A. 

John Margison, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, 120th Regt , Co. A. 

Wm. York, enlisted Aug. 11, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. A. 

Elmore Terwilliger, enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, 120th Regt., Co. A. 

Wm. L. Dougherty, enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, 124th Regt., Co. A. 

Jesse E. Knapp, enlisted Aug. 13, 1862. 

Oliver Lavvson, 2d lieut. 1st Mtd. rifles, enlisted Aug. 5, 1862. 

James A. Hyde, capt , enlisted Aug. 22, 1862, 120th Regt. 

George Duncan, enlisted 1861. 

Wm. Duncan, enlisted 1861, 12th Regt. 

Isaac Sims, enlisted April, 1861, 3rd Cav. 

Navy. 

Cornelius Atherton, enlisted Sejit. 5, 1864, ship " Grand Gulf." 

David Johnson, enlisted Aug. 16, 1864, ship "Clamatus." 

Horace B. Sands, enlisted Sejit. 7, 1862, ship " Mohegan." 

John W. Williams, enlisted Sept. 7, 1862, ship " Mohegan." 

Martin Fisher, enlisted Aug. 16, 1864, ship " Columbus." 

It is impossible to o'ixc aii\- history ol wluit t hcsc nu'ii dirl. 
as tliey were so scattered that their record wouUl cinl)race a 
complete history of the Kebellion. 



OLD PJ5PERS. 



Major DuBois' Will. 

j The People of the State of New York, by the 
■ ' ■ ( Grace of God, Free and Independent: 
All to whom these presents shall come, or ma)- concern, 
Send greeting : Know Ye, That at Ulster County, on the 
first day of Febriiar}-, instant, before Josei)h Gasherie, Esq., 
Surrogate of (^ur said Count}", the last will and testament of 
Lewis DuBois, deceased, (a copy whereof is hereimto an- 
nexed) was proved, and is now ap|)r(»\'ed and allowed of b}' 
us, and the said deceased having, whilst he li\ cd, and at the 
time of his death, goods, chattels, or credits within this 
State, b}" means whereof the pro\'ing and registering the 
said will, and the granting administration of all and singular 
the said goods, chattels and credits, and also the auditing, 
allowing and final discharging the accounts thereof, doth be- 
long unto us; the administration of all, and singular the 
goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased, and an}- 
way concerning his will is granted unto Lewis DuBois, 
junior, Johannis T. Jansen and Johannis Bruyn, executors in 
the said will named, they being first duly swoi'n well and 
faithfully to administer the same, and to make and exhibit a 
true and perfect inventory of all and singular the said goods, 
chattels, and credits, and also to render a just and true ac- 
count thereof when thereunto required. In testimon}' 
whereof, we have caused the seal of office of our said Sur- 
rogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Joseph Gasherie, 
Esq., Surrogate of the said Count}-, at Kingston, the 
eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one 
thousand, eight hundred and three, and of our Independence 
the twenty-seventh. Josepfi Gasherie, 

Surrogate. 



32 The History of Marlboro'iii^li. 

In the nanie of God ! Amen ! I, Lewis Dnbois, of the town 
of Marlborough, in the County of Ulster, and State of New 
York, being in health, and of soimd mind and memory^ 
( Blessed be the Lord) Do, this nineteenth da\' of Novem- 
ber, in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand, seven hun- 
dred and ninety-five, .make and publish this my last will and 
testament, in manner following: Imprimis, I order all my 
just debts and funeral charges to be paid out of my personal 
estate, in as short a time as the same may be conveniently 
done after ni}- decease ; Also I give unto my beloved wife, 
Rachel, the Northwest room in mv present dwelling house, 
also the room to the East thereof, called the stoveroom, also 
one of my cellars in the same and as much garret room and 
as much ol the gardens as she may stand in need of, and also 
of the water, and privilege of the bleach 3'ard, together with 
a free and uninterrupted privilege of passing and repassing 
thro' the other part of my said dwelling-house, with her 
servants and attendance, as often as she may think proper. Also 
the privilege of taking as many apples or other fruits out of the 
orchard, and as much of the cyder, wdien made, as she may 
have occasion for her family's use, all which is to be at her 
command during her widowdiood, also I give unto my said 
wife, Rachel, two feather-beds, with the bedsteads and all 
the furniture thereunto belonging, together with her choice 
of my negro-wenches, also my best cow, two iron pots, one 
pair of hand irons, one tire shovel and tongs, one tramel, one 
tea kettle, one set of tea cups and saucei's, my best cup- 
board, with all the linen therein, as well as all the 
linen brought with her when I married her, together also 
with all her wearing apparel, also my best looking-glass, 
half a dozen common chairs, my best table, one trunk, one- 
half a dozen of table knives and forks, one dozen pewter 
plates, my dresser with the glass doors, also one of my l)est 
horses. Also, I give, devise and bequeath imto mv son 
Lewis all that part of the tract of land whereon I now dwell, 
granted b\' letters patent l)earing date the liflh dav ol June, 
Anno Domini 1712, unto Augustine CJraham and Alexander 
Griggs, which part of the said tract hereby devised to my 



The History of Marlborouiiii. 33 

son Lewis, Begins at a walnut tree, formerly marked with 
three notches on four sides, for the Northwest corner of the 
said tract, standing- where two stone fences meet ; thence 
along the Westerl}' bounds thereof, as the niagnetical needle 
pointed in the 3'ear 1786, South twenty-nine degrees and 
thirt}' minutes, West twenty-five chains to a stake and heap 
of stones ; then along a line of marked trees, South sixty- 
nine degrees. East fifty-three chains and thirty links to a 
l^lack oak sapling, marked three notches on four sides, stand- 
ing about two chains Southwesterly from a small pond of 
water; then, as the needle now points South twenty-three 
chains and sevent^'-two links to a tree marked on the Noi'th 
bank ol the Old Man's Kill, and so continuing the last men- 
tioned course, two chains and forty links further, to a stake 
and stones put upon the South side of the public road, lead- 
ing westward Irom the town of or village ot Marlborough, 
along the said Old Man's Kill ; then South sixt3^-eight 
degrees and fifteen minutes, East eleven chains and 
twenty-four links to a stone formerly set in the 
ground, for the rear lots of said town; then South 
sixtv-two degrees, East eight chains and sixty-three links to 
the Northwest corner of lot numloer 8 of said town ; then, 
along the Northerly bounds thereof, South eight v-five 
degrees and fifteen minutes. East four chains to the stone set 
for the Northeast corner thereof, also a corner of the lot bv 
me leased to Thurston Wood ; then, along the last mentioned 
lot, South thirty-seven degrees. East two chains and three 
links to a stone set in the ground ; then South fifty-one 
degrees and a half, East along the Southwest side of the lot 
distinguished by the name of Crown ITill, by me leased to 
Henr}' Decker, to the Southerly bank of the Old Man's 
Kill, af(jresaid ; then, along the said Southerly bank, down 
the stream, as the said bank turns and winds, to a certain 
point of land at the North side of the South branch of the 
said Old Man's Kill, being the place of beginning mentioned 
in the said letters patent, and runs thence, along Hudson's 
River, Northerly as it runs, to the North l:)ounds of the said 
tract, being on a direct line, one hundred and two chains ; 



34 'Tlic History of MarlboroiigJi. 

thence, aloiii^ the North lioiinds of said tract, the neecUe 
pointing as in 1786, South eighty-six degrees and thirty 
minutes, West one hundred and twenty-six chains and a 
half, to the ])lace of beginning. Containing eight hiuidred 
and twenty-hjur acres, be the same, within the bounds 
aforesaid, more or less. 

Also I give and devise, imto my said son Lewis, all the 
right, title and interest which 1 hold of, in and to two 
water lots lying between the channel and the West bank ot 
Hudson's River, adjoining on the East side of the above de- 
vised lots, so as the said two water lots have lately been sur- 
veyed at m)^ expense, b}' Henry Livingstone, of Poughkeep- 
sie, a maj) and return of which survey, is now lying under 
the consideration of the land office of this State. Also I give 
and devise unto my said son Lewis a certain lot of land ad- 
joining the town oi" village of Marlborough, aforesaid, being 
bounded by the Northeast thereof by the said lots hy me 
leased to Thurston Wood and Henr)- Decker, and the line 
of the hrst lot herein devised to ni}' said son Lewis, and 
bounded to the South\A'ard thereof b}" a line drawn on a 
South, eighty-three degrees. East course, the needle point- 
ing as in the year 1785, from the Southeast corner of the lot 
number six in the said town or village, and is to extend from 
the fronts of the lots number six, number seven and numfier 
eight, eastward, between the aforesaid line drawn and the 
fronts of the said lots leased to Thurston Wood and Llenr}- 
Decker, and the said line of the hrst lot herein devised so 
far, untill it contains one acre and a halt of land, which said 
lour lots of land, hereby devised, with the rights, niembers 
and appurtenances thereimto belonging, with the I'ents, is- 
sues and profits thereof are to be holden unto my son Lewis 
and to his heirs and assigns lorever, in fee simple, subject, 
nevertheless to the de\ise hereinbefore mentioned, in favor 
of my said wife, and 1 do hereby order m\ said son Lewis, 
his heirs, executors or administrators to pro\ide and bring 
to the door of my said wile, all tiie firewood w hich she ma}' 
have occasion of for her fuel, also provide good keeping for 
her horse and cow, both in winter and summer, or for such 



TJic History of Marlborough. 35 

time and so long as slie may incline to live in my present 
dwelling house or on the above described premises and re- 
mains my widow, and I do hereby make that part of my es- 
tate hereinbelOre devised unto m\- said son Lewis, charge- 
able with the provision and deliverv thereof unto my said 
wife ; Also I give unto m\' said son Lewis, one good cart, 
one waggon, one plow, with the irons thereunto belonging, 
one yoke of oxen and three horses, two milk cows, all my 
chains and all my gears and tackling for furnishing of teams, 
my potash kettle, m>- weaving loom and all my reeds and 
gears and appurtenances thereunto belonging, my fanning- 
mill, all my sleds, my croebars and all my ironwork belong- 
ing unto my saw mill, mv screen and all my tools and im- 
plements belonging or commonly made use of in my grist 
mill, together with all other farming utensils and implements 
of husbandry whatsoever not hereinbefore mentioned; Also 
twelve sheep, one featherbed and bedstead, with all the 
furniture, one saddle and bridle, my gun and silver-hilted 
sword, my writing-desk and my clock now in my dwelling- 
room ; also my negro uian named lite. 

Also 1 give and bequeath and devise unto my son Wilhel- 
mus all that Southerly part of the said tract, being bounded 
as follows, to-wit : Beginning at the North side of the old 
Man's Kill, aforesaid, at a certain point of land between the 
said branches, being the place of lieginning men- 
tioned in the aforesaid letters patent, and runs from thence, 
along the South bounds of the said tract, as the needle 
pointed Anno Domini 1786, South eighty-five degrees and a 
half, West one hundred and forty-eight chains to the Soiith- 
ermost corner of said tract, being a walnut tree, formerly 
marked with three notches on four sides, then, along the 
West bounds of said tract, North twenty-nine degrees and 
thirty minutes. East ninety-eight chains and a half to a stake, 
a heap of stones put \\\) for the Southwesterly corner of the 
first lot hereinbefore devised unto my said son Lewis, then, 
along the same, as it is bounded, on the Southerly sides, with 
the several courses thereof to the place where the last de- 
scribed lot, devised to my said son Wilhelmus, first began. 



36 The History of Marlborough. 

Containing six hundred and sixty-two acres, be the same, 
within the boinids aforesaid, nujre or less. And the rever- 
sion and reversions, rents, issues and jnohts thereof, (except- 
ing, nevertheless, the lot of one acre and a half hereinbefore 
devised to my sun Lewis, which is comprehended within 
the bounds ol the last described lot.) To hold the said lot 
of land, with the rights, members and appurtenances, unto 
m}^ said son VVilhelmus, for and during his natural lifetime, 
and at and after the decease of my said son Wilhelmus, 
I give, devise and bequeath the same to the children, law- 
fully begotten or to be begotten by mv said son Wilhelmus, 
to hold the same to mv said grand children, and to 
their heirs and assigns forever in lee simple unto 
each of my said grand children, males and females, 
each of them an equal share thereof, respectively, 
as tenants in common ; Also I give, devise and bequeath unto 
my said son Lewis, and tu his heirs and assigns forever, in 
fee simple, the vSoutherly, equal half part of mv lot of land in 
Stuben township, in the State of New York, conveyed tu me 
by Thomas Machin, by two certain deeds, one bearing date 
the thirteenth day of October, 1787, the other bearing date 
the thirtieth day uf July, 1788, which lot is distinguished in a 
map of the division of said townshi[), hied in the Secretaries 
office of said State, by lot number 14 and contains six hun- 
dred and forty acres, and I order that the said Southerly 
half part of said last mentioned lot shall be separated from the 
Northerly half part thereof by a line, running Easterly and 
Westerly, through the middle t'lereof, parallel to the North- 
erly and Southerlv bounds thereof ; Also 1 give, devise and 
bequeath unlu mv said son Wilhelmus the Northerlv half 
part of said lot, number fuurteen, so to be divided as alure- 
said, tu be hulden unto my said sun Wilhelmus, for and dur- 
ing his natural liletiiiie and. at his decease, 1 gi\e and de- 
vise the said Northerly liall part ul the said lot number tuur- 
teen unto my said grandchildren, begotten, or lawfullv to l)e 
begotten of mv said son Wilhehnus, and to their lieiis and 
assigns forever unto each uf my said grandchildren, males 
and females, an equal share thereuf as ^lenants in common, 



The History of Marlborough. 37 

also I give, devise and bequeath unto my daughter, Mar- 
garet, the Southerly half part of my lot ol land in Woodhul 
township, in the State of New York, which lot was convey- 
ed to me, by the aforesaid Thomas Machin, by deed bearing 
date the thirtieth of July, 1788, and C(Mitains six hundred 
acres, and is known and distinguished in the map and di- 
visi(jn of the said township of Woodhul, by lot number 
thirty-six, and 1 order that the Scmtherly hall part of the said 
last mentioned lot shall be divided from the Northerly half 
})art thereof by a line running through the middle thereof, 
from the Easterly to the Westerly bounds thereof, })arallel to 
the Northerly and Southerly bounds of the same, and that 
the said Southerly half part so divided shall be and remain 
luilo my said daughter Margaret and to her heirs and as- 
signs forever. Also 1 give, devise and bequeath unto my 
two granddaughters, to wit : Hannah (only child of my son 
Nathaniel, deceased) and Cornelia (only child of my daugh- 
ter Rachel) the Northerly half part of said last mentioned lot 
number thirty-six, so to l)e divided, to hold the sakl last 
mentioned Northerly hali part of the lot No. 36 unto my 
said two granddaughters, their heirs and assigns forever, each 
of them an equal share theix'cjf, as tenants in common ; Also 
1 give, devise and bequeath unto my daughter Maiy, all the 
certain lot of land, lying in the town of Montg(jmery, in Ul- 
ster Coimty, within a tract called the eight thousand acres, 
which lot is distinguished by lot number 15 in the third al- 
lotment of the last division of the said tract made by ThcHiias 
Moffat, Christopher Tappen and Cornelius Schoonmaker, 
Escpiires, Commissioners, appointed tor that })urp()se in pur- 
suance of the act for the partition of lands, which said lot 
contains one hundred and fifty-one acres, as by the 
field books and maps filed in the Secretar)'s of- 
fice oi this State, and in the Cleik's office of Ul- 
ster County, reference unto the said division there be- 
ing had, will fully appear, which said last mentioned 
lot of land, I give and devise unto my said daughter Mary, 
(luring her natural life time, and, at her decease, I give, de- 
vise and bequeath the same unto thf^ children, lawfully to be 



38 The Histo:<y of Alar/boroiigh. 

begotten and now begotten of my said daughter Mary, and 
to their heirs and assigns forever, each of my daughter 
Mar}' 's children, males and females, an equal share therein, 
as tenants in common ; also 1 give and devise imto my 
daughter Margaret, all that lot known by the lot miinber 
tzvelvc in the iirst allotment of the said division made of the 
eight thousand acre tract, containing one hundred and two 
acres and one tenth ol an acre, as, by the said maps and 
field books, Avill also appear, to hold the said lot number 
twelve unto ni}' said daughter Margaret for and during her 
natural lifetime, and at her decease, I give and devise the 
said lot number twelve unto all the children now begotten or 
to be begotten of the body of my said daughter Margaret, 
and to their several and respective heirs and assigns for- 
ever, each of my said last mentioned grandchildren, males 
and females, an equal share therein as tenants in common, in 
fee simple; Also 1 give, devise and bequeath unto my said 
granddaughter, Cornelia, (only child of mv daughter Rachel, 
deceased) all the residue of my lands in the said eight thou- 
sand acre tract, being part of the old division of })art of the 
said tract, and in that part of lot number tzvelve in said old . 
division, which Andries Le Fever, released to me by inden- 
ture, bearing date 14th day of June, Anno Domini 1790, and 
contains ninety-five acres and one-third of an acre, as, by the 
said release remaining of record in the Clerk's Office of Ul- 
ster County, reference being thereto had, will appear; to 
hold the said residue or lot of land hereby devised unto my 
said granddaughter Cornelia, her heirs and assigns forever, 
in fee simple ; Also 1 give and becpieath unto the children 
begotten and to be begotten of the body of my said daugh- 
ter Mary, the sum of '(\\(; hundred pounds, lawful money of 
New \'ork, to be paid unlo him, her or them ( il more than 
one) in ecpial shaies, alter m\' said daughter Mar\'s decease, 
as the children shall or nia\', alter said decease, arrive or be 
of age. And I or(k'r that \\\\ executors hereinafter named, 
sluill pill the said sum ol li\c' hundretl pt)unds out npon in- 
terest, with good security, at discretion, and thai t hex- 
pay the interest from time to time thereof, as it may 



Tlic Ifisfo?-}' of Marlboro2(gh. 39 

come into their hands, unto my said daughter Mary, as a 
maintenance and sui)p()rt for her, diirino- her life time, after 
which the princijial sum to be paid, as before directed, unto 
her chikh-en ; Also 1 give and bequeath unto the children 
now born, or to be born, lawfully, of the body of my said 
daughter Margaret, the like sum of five hundred pounds, 
lawful money of New York, to be paid to them res[)ectively, 
b}' my said executors, alter the decease of my said daughter 
Margaret, in like manner as I have hereinbefore directed 
the like sum to be i)aid to the child or children 
of my daughter Mary. ' And I also impowcr and 
order my executors to put out the said sum of hve hun- 
dred pounds at use, on good security, at their discretion, 
and that the}- ])a> the interest of the said last mentioned sum, 
from time to time, as it comes into their hands, unto my said 
daughter Margaret, as a maintainance and support for her, 
during her life ; also I give and bequeath unto each of my 
said two granddaughters, Hannah and Cornelia, the sum of 
two hundred and hfty pounds, lawful money aforesaid, 
which said sums of two himdred and fifty pounds shall be 
l)aid b}' my executors imto my said last mentioned grand- 
daughters, respectively, as they shall respectively arrive of 
full age, and, it anyone or both of my last mentioned two 
granddaughters shall happen to die without lawful issue of 
her or their bodies begotten, before she or they may re- 
spectively arri\'e to the age of twenty-one years, then and in 
such case, the legacy hereby given unto them or such of 
them so happening to die without issue as aforesaid, shall be 
equally divided among ni}- other children, to wit: my sons 
Lewds, Wilhelmus, and daughters Mary and Margaret and to 
their respective heirs and assigns forever ; Also I do hereby 
order and direct my said executors, out of the monies w hich 
I may have at use at the time of m}- decease, to keep or retain, 
or set apart the simi of five hundred pounds. New York cur- 
rency, and my said executors shall annually pay the interest 
of the last mentioned sum unto m}' said wife Rachel during 
her widowdiood as a further support for her. And if, at an}' 
time after my decease, and during her widowhood it should 



40 The History of Marlborough. 

appear to my said executors that the interest of the said sum 
ol hve hundred pounds, together with other provision made 
in this will, unto my said wife, should not be adequate to af- 
ford a reasonable and decent su})])ort lor my said widow 
then, and in such case, it shall be lawfid lor my said execu- 
tors, and ui)on the request of my said ^^■ile, Iroiu time to 
time and at discretion to take part of the said last mentioned 
princijml sum, and to appropriate such part Inwards the bet- 
ter maintenance and support of my said widow. y\ll my 
other estate, l)oth real and ])ersonal, that shall remain after 
l)avmcnt of my debts and fimeral expenses, and the legacies 
hereinbefore devised, I give, devise and bequeath the same, 
together with the last mentioned sum of hve himdred pounds 
or the Residue thereof, after my wife's decease or Day of 
Marriage, unto my said h)ur children, Wilhelmus, Lewis, 
Mary and Margaret, m}- wife Rachel, and my two grand 
daughters Hannah and Cornelia, that is to say, unto my 
said son Wilhelmus, and to his heirs and Assigns forever, 
one sixth part thereof, and inito my said son Lewis, his LTcirs 
and Assigns forever, one sixth part thereof, unto my said 
Daughter Mar)', her Lleirs and Assigns, one sixth jjart 
thereof imto Margaret, one sixth part as aforesaid vmto ni}- 
said two Grand Daughters the one sixth ])art thereof, as 
af(jresaid, and unto my beloved wife, Rachel, one other sixtli* 
part of the said Residue. It is however to be understood 
that the said last mentioned sum of hve hundred pounds, or 
the residue thereof, after my said wife's Widowhood shall 
expire, shall be diyided only among my said two sons, and 
two Daughters, and my said two Grand Daughters, each of 
my said Sons and Daughters one fifth ])art thereof, and the 
remaining fifth |)art thereol unto my two grand daughters, 
Hannah and Cornelia. All the Legacies and [)riyeleges, b\- 
my this my Will'given unto my wife, 1 give unto her in lieu 
of her right of Dower. And Lastly 1 do hereby make, or- 
dain. Constitute and a|>p()int my son Lewis, my good Fi-iends 
Josiah Merritt and Johannis Lefexer, ILsq., my brothei- in-La\v 
Johannis T. Jansen, and Cornelius DuBois, Junr., and Johan- 
nis Bruyn, and the Survivors of them to be executors of this 



Tlie History of AIarIlH>ro?ig/i. 41 

my Last will and Testament. And 1 do also Nominate my 
said S(jn Lewis and my said br(jther-in-La\v, Johannis T.Jan- 
sen, to be and act as Guardians to my said Grand Daughters, 
Hannah and Cornelia, and to have the care of their Estate. 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto Set my hand 
and Seal, the Day and Near first above written. 

Lewis DuBois. (l. s.) 

Sig-ned, Sealed, published and declared by the Testator 
as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who 
Signed our Names hereto as Witnesses in this said Testa- 
»■ tor's presence, and of each other — page 2d. the words So?ith 
sixtv nine degrees, lias/ Interlined in the 12th. Yxnc, East '\n the 
2^ri\.-foifr on Razure in the 28th. (in the third page, the words 
one in the iith. line on Razure) page 6th. the word Grand 
wrote on the blot, 26th. line (page 8th. last line, Dam^/iters in- 
terlined page Qlh. to TivV, on razure in the 27th. line and he in 
the third line) loth, page, i6th. line, /on Razure, the last 
page, 18th. line, the letter U \n the word Guardian, Interlined. 
Anm>rf.w Ei.v, josiAii I\li-:RKri', 

JoiiANMs T. Jansf.n, Joiiaxnis Bruvn. 

Ulster Conntv, ss : Be it lemeiufjeredthat, on the first day ol 
Februar}', in the year of oui" Lord, one thousand, eight him- 
dred and three, personally came and aj)pcared before me 
Josei)h Gasherie, Surrogate of the said County, johannis T. 
Jansen and Johannis Bruyn, ot the town of Shawangunk, in 
the said County, vcomen, and y\ndrew Ely, of the town ol 
Marlborough, 3'coman, and being dul}' sworn, on their Oaths 
declared that they and each of them did see Lewis DuBois 
sign and seal the within written instrument purporting to 
be the Will of the said Lewis DuBois, bearing date the Nine- 
teenth day of November, one thousand, seven hundred and 
ninety-five, and heard him publish and declare the same, as and 
for his last Will and Testament that, at the time thereof, he, 
the said Lewis DuBois, was of soimd disposing mind and mem- 
ory to the best of the knowledge and belief of ther.i, the de- 
ponents, and that they, the said deponents, together with 



42 TJic History of ATnr/boroiif^h. 

Josiah Mcrritt, subscribed the said Will, as witnesses there- 
"to, in the testator's presence. And that Lewis DuBois, 
Junior, fohannis T. Jansen and Johannis Bruyn, Executors 
named in the prececdinjL;' will, likewise ap[)eared before me 
and wxre severally sworn to the true execution and perfor- 
mance of the said preceedinij^ will, by taking the usual oath 
of an executor. JosEi'ii Gasiierie, Surrogate. 

The preceeding is a true Coi)y of the original will of 
Lewis DuBois, deceased, and also of the Certificate of the 
prool thereof — Note the words .?cr/V/ in page 8, the i6th line, 
respective, page lo, the 3rd. line, Son, same page, the 27th. 
line, daugJitcrs, ])age ii, in the loth. line being interlined. 

JosEi'ii Gasherie, Surrogate. 



The Bond Patent. 

Anne, by the grace of (iod, c[uene of Great Britain, France 
and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc., to all whom these 
presents shall come, (^r may in an}- wise concern, greeting : 
Whereas, our living subject, William Bond, Esq'r, his hum- 
ble petition presented to our trusty and well beloved Roloert 
Hunter, Esquir, Captain Generall and Governour-in-chief of 
our provinc of New York and territory depending thereon 
in America, and Vic Admirall of the same in Council hath 
prayed Our grant and conhrmation of a certain tract of Land 
in the Count)' of Ulster, being part of the Land formerly 
granted to Ca})tain John Evans, now vacated and reserved: 
Beginning on the West side of Mudson'sriver, inthelineof the 
South bounds of the land of Mr. John Barbaric, it runs with 
the said Line uj) into the woods North sixty-one degrees. 
West one hiuulred and seventy chains, thence South three 
degrees, East fifty-one chains, thence South sixty-one 
degrees, East one hundred and hfty chains to lludson's 
river; thence u}) llu^ ri\er Runs to the place where it hrst 
begiMi, containing in the whole six hundred acres English 



The History of Marlborough. 43 

measure, beiri^; boiindecl Northward by the said land ot the 
said Juhn Barbaric, Westward by land not yet surveyed. 
Southward by land not yet surveyed, and Eastward b\' Hud- , 
son's river aforesaid, the within petition we being willing to 
grant. 

Know Ye that of our especiall grace certain knowledge 
and meer motion we have given, granted, ratified and con- 
firmed and by these presents do for us, our heirs and suc- 
cessors gi\e, gi"ant, ratify and confirm unto the said Wil- 
liam Bond, all that the said grant of land and premises 
above mentioned and described with the hereditaments and 
appurtenances thereimto belonging within the limits and 
boimds aforesaid, together with all and singular woods, 
underwoods, trees, timber, feeding pastures, meadows, 
marshes, swamps, ponds, pools, water, water tours, inert ox 
in acticju, rims and streams of water, fishing, fowling, hawk- 
ing, hunting, mines and mineralls, standing^ growing, lying 
and being to be used had and Enjoyed within tiie Lands and 
bounds aforesaid, and all other profits, benefits, privileges, 
libertvs and advantages, hereditaments and appurtenances 
whatsoever, unto the said tract of Land and premises and 
anv part and parcel thereof belonging or in any wise apper- 
taining, and all our estate, right, title, interest, benefit and 
advantage, claim and demand whatsoever, of, in, or t(j the 
said tract of land and premises u'ith the hereditaments and 
appurtenances aforesaid and every ])art and parcel thereof, 
and the reversion and I'cversions, remainder and remainders, 
together with the yearly and other rents and profits of the 
same tract of land and premises and of every part and parcel 
thereol except always and reser\ ed out ot this Our present 
grant unto Our heirs and successors all such firr trees and 
pine trees of the diameter of twenty-four inches at twelve 
inches from the groimd or root as now are or shall be fit to 
make masts for Our royall navy, and als(j all such other trees 
as are or shall be fitt to make masts, planks or knees for the 
use of our na\'y aforesaid only which now are standing, 
growing and lying, and which hereafter shall stand, grow 
and be-on and upon the said tract of land and premises or any 



44 The History of Marlboroiis^li. 

part and parcel tliereol with free libert\- and license for any 
person or persons whatsoever ([)y us Our heirs and succes- 
sors thereunto, to be appointed undei" our sii^n manual), with 
workmen, horses, wages, carts and carriages, or without to 
enter antl coinc into and upon the same tract of land and 
l)remises (n any part thereof, hereby granted them, to fell, 
cut down, root iij), hew, saw, rooe, have, take, cart and carry 
away the same for the use afoiesaid (and also e\ce})t all gold 
and silver mines). To have and to hold -aW that, the said cer- 
tain tract ol land and premises with its hereditaments and 
appourtenaiices hereby granted aforesaid (cxce})t as before 
excepted only) unto the said William Bond, his heirs and 
assigns loreser to the sole and only })ro})er use, benefit and 
behool ol the said William Bond, his heirs and assigns 
iorever. 

To be holdeii ol us our heirs and sujects in Ice and conion 
soccagc as (jf . our manors ol East Greenwich in the 
County ol Kent, within our realm of Great Britain, r^//^////i,'" 
rendering and paying therefore yearly and ever) year unto 
our heirs and successors. from henceforth forever at our cus- 
tom house in New York to our, or their collector oi receiver 
(stationed) there for the time being at, or u])on the feast day 
of wSaint Michael the Archangle (commonly called Michal- 
mas day), the \earlv rent or siun of two shillings and six- 
pence current money of our province of New \'ork for every 
one hundred acres of land of the before mentioned track of 
land ol six hundred acres heieinbefore granted and con- 
firmed in lieu and stead of all other rents, dues, duties, ser- 
vices, and demands whatsoexer. rrovided always and these 
presents are upon this condition, that the said Wm. Bond, 
his heirs and assigns, some or one of them shall and do wdthin 
the space of three years now, next ensuing the date hereof 
settle there and make im|)r()vcments of three acres of 
land at the least h)r every fifty iicrcs of the said tract of land 
of six hundred acres hereinbeh)re granted, and in delalt 
thereol the said W^m. f^ond, his heirs or assigns, or an\' ol 
them or any^ other j)ei-son or persons, by his or their con- 
sent, order or procuriuent shall set on lii-e or cause to be set 



The History of MarlborongJi. 45 

on fire and burn the woods on the said tract of land herein- 
before ,^ranted or on a part or parcel thereof to sear the 
same, that then, and in either of these cases this our pres- 
ent grant and every clause and article herein contained shall 
cease, dertcruiinc and utterly void anything- herein contained 
to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And ^nq 
do and hereby will and grant that these our letters patent 
or the record thereof in our Secretaries office ol our said 
province, shall be good and effectival in the law to all in- 
tents and purposes notwithstanding the not true and will 
reciting and mentioning of the premises or any part thereof, 
the limits and bounds thereof of any former or other letters 
patent or grants whatsoever made or granted of the same 
six hundred acres of land and premises or of any part thereof 
being, or any of our progenitors unto any other person or 
persons whatsoever, body politic or corporate or any law 
or other restraint, uncertainty or imperfection whatsoever 
to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 

/;/ testimony whereof we have caused the great seal of our 
said province to be hereunto affixed and these presents to be 
recorded in our said secretarie's (jtfice. IVitness, our trusty 
and well beloved Robert Hunter, Esquire, Captain General 
and Governor-in-Chief of our said province of New York 
the province of New Jersey and the territories depending on 
them in America, and Vice Admiral of the same in council 
at our fort in New York this twelfth day of June, in the 
eleventh year of our reign. 

[L. S.] 



To this interesting old document is a])i)ended Queen 
Anne's seal, a tremendous affair of wax, three and a half 
inches in diameter. 

The Bond patent is the oldest existing title to land in 
Marlborough, and was granted to Captain William Bond, 
the first white settler within the town limits, of whom there 
is any record. 



46 The History of Marlborough. 

Calendar of N. Y. Colonial Mss. Indorsed "Land 

Pai'ers," in the (Jffice of the Secretary of 

State of New York, 1643 to 1803. 

1697 — No Date ; Vol. II. — Petition of Egbert and Hen- 
drick Schoonmaker, of Kingstowne, praying a grant tor a 
tract of vacant land, about 600 acres, lying opposite to the 
highlands or thereabouts, being on both sides the Oudtman's 
Kill or Creek (Marlborough landing?), having been for- 
merly patented to Captain Evans, but since broken by an act 
of General Assemby (town of Marlb(^rough, Ulster Co.) 
Page 268. 

1709 — Aug. 18; Vol. IV.— Petition of Alexander Griggs, 
of the County of Ulster, praying a grant for 600 acres of 
land in said county, lying on the West side of Hudson's 
river, beginning on the South side of Old Man's creek and 
running up the river to a point called Old Man's Hook, to- 
gether with 6 acres of meadow, lying at a certain place 
called Ye Dance-Chamber. Page 182. 

1 710 — Feb. 23; Vol. V. — Petition of Augustine Graham, 
Surveyor General, for a })atent to him and Alexander Griggs, 
for 1,200 acres of land at ye Old Man's creek, being part of 
the resumed lands formerly granted to Caj^t. John Evans. 

1712 — April 7; Vol. V. — Petition of Augustine Graham 
and Alexander Griggs, praying a patent for a tract of land 
in Ulster Co., being })art of the land formerlv granted to 
Capt. John Evans, now vacant and resumed, lying at the 
Old-Man's Kill. Page 88. 

1712 — May 3; Vol. V.— Petition of William Bond for a 
grant of 600 acres of land adjoining John Barberie's, on 
Hudson river, in Ulster Co., being part of Ca})t. John Evans' 
patent, now vacant and resumed. Page 100. 

May 13. — Report ol S. Staats and others of the Council to 
whom the foregoing petition was referred. Also on the 
15th of May, Warrant to the Survevor CJeneial to lay out 
for William Bond the hmd praved for in the above ])etition. 
Page 100. 

June. — Description of a survey of 600 acres of land on the 



The History of Afar /borough. 47 

West side of Hudson's river, in Ulster Co., laid out for 
VVm. Bond. Aug. Graham, Sur. Gen'l, with a Draft. Page 100. 

June 6. — Petition of Wm. Bond for a warrant to the 
Attorney General to draught letters patent for 600 acres of 
land, in the County, granted upon a former petition. 

1712 — June 12; Vol. V. — Petition of Peter Johnson for 
a grant of 500 acres of land lying to the Northward of a small 
'run of water, which runs into Hudson's rivei-, to the South- 
ward of the Dance Chamber, being part of the lands for- 
merly granted to Capt. John Evans. Page 1 13. 

1 71 3 — July 13. — Petition of Francis Harrison and Com- 
pany, praying for a patent for 5000 acres of land, l^age, 
167, Vol. V. * 

1714 — July 10; Vol. VI. — Certificate ot Land Board to 
Francis Harrison and others for a certain tract of land in 
Ulster Co., bounded on the North by Andrew ffolks' land 
and ye nine Germans himilies, on the West and South by 
land imsurveyed, and on the East by Hudson's river, con- 
taining 5000 acres. Page 48. 

July 10. — Warrant for a Patent to Francis Harrison and 
others for the land last described. 

1 713 — July 10. — lY'tition of Francis Harrison and C(^m- 
pany, praying for a patent for 5000 acres of land. Vol. V, 
page 170. 

1713 — Vol.6; Pages 6, 8, 9. — Petition (jf Francis Harri- 
son and others for a warrant to the Surveyor General to 
survey 5000 acres out of the resumed lands formerly granted 
to Capt. John Evans, with (Nov 23) Report of A. D. Pcyster 
and others of the Council to whom the foregoing petition 
was referred, recommending the same be granted, and on 
April 10, 1714, Warrant to the Surveyor General to survey 
and lay out the land. 

1720 — May 26; Vol. VIT. — Petition of Francis Harrison 
and others for a warrant to survey and lay out for them 
5000 acres of land in the County of Ulster, being part of the 
resumed land of Capt. John Evans, beginning at the S. E. 
corner of the tract of 10,000 acres lately granted to Jeremiah 
Schuyler, on the West side of Paltz creek. May 31, report 



48 Tlic History of Marlhoroug)i. 

of A. DcPcjstcr, of the Council to whom it was referred. 
June 2 — Warrant of a survey for the same. 

1723^ — June 26; Vol. IX. — Certificate to Francis Harri- 
son for a certain \c>X. of land now in his possession, being his 
share in an allotment of 5000 acres granted him, in company 
with Mary Tatham and others, beginning on the West bank 
of the Hudson river, and containing 1000 acres, together 
with an undivided fifth part of ye meadow ground called 
the Dance Chamber, and 315 acres adjoining the West bound 
of aforesaid tract for highways. 

1714 — :Auti. 26; Vol. VI. — Warrant to the Surveyor Gen- 
eral to lay out for Lewis Morris and others 5000 acres of 
land, lying on both sides of Old Man's creek, in Ulster Co., 
near Hudson's river, being part of ye lands formerly granted 
to Capt. John Evans. 

1715 — June 30; Vol. VI. — Petition of Servus ffleraboom, 
on behalf of Johnnes Johnson and others, children of Peter 
Johnson, deceased, for 300 acres of land lying North of a 
small run, which comes into Hudson's river South of the 
Dance Chamber, being part of the tract formerly granted to 
Capt. John Evans, lying with the bounds of the land of 
Francis Harrison and Comp'y, but excepted and reserved 
out of his patent. 

1717 — Nov. 20. — Description of a survey of 300 acres of 
land lying within the patent granted to Francis Harrison 
& Co., on the West side of Hudson's river, in the County of 
Albany (evidently Ulster) near the Dans Chamber, being 
part of the resumed lands of Capt. John Evans, laid out for 
the children of Peter Johnson, deceased, by Wm. Bond, 
Deputy Surveyor, with draught. 179. 

1719 — Aug. 27; Vol. VII. — Petition of Melcher Gellis, 
praying a patent for 300 acres of land, being part of the re- 
assmned land of Capt. John Evans, lying on the West side of 
Iluflson's river, near the Dans Chamber, the said land being 
comjirchended wilhin the limits of the tract granted to 
Francis Harrison iS: Comi)'y, but excepted and reserved out 
of their patent. With, Oct. i. Report of A. D. I'eyster and 
others, a committee to whom the same was referred. 68. 



TJie History of MarlborougJi. 49 

Oct. 8. — Warrant for a patent to Melcher GcUis for the 
above mentioned 300 acres, near the Dans Chamber. 

1767 — Feb. 9; Vol. 33. — Caveat by Gilbert Purely against 
granting any lands in the South part of Ulster Co., between 
or near the patent of Francis Harrison or James Alexander, 
to Thomas Palmer, Samuel Fowler or Henry Smith, until 
the others are heard. Page 28. 

Feb. 14; Vol. 33, Page 35. — Petition of Henry Smith, the 
elder, Samuel Fowler and Isaac Fowler, all of the precinct 
of Newburgh, in the County of Ulster, praying a grant of 
all the land above 5600 acres within the bounds of a certain 
tract granted Francis Harrison and four others in the said 
county. 

1769 — April 18 ; Vol. 25, Page 113. — Petition ot John Bel- 
field, of the precinct of Newburgh, in the Coimty of Ulster, 
Matthew Van Cura, of Dutchess county, |)ra3'ing the privi- 
lege of keeping a Ferr}^ over Hudson's river ojjposite their 
respective dwelling houses in Ulster and Dutchess County, 
to the exclusi(^n of all others, for the distance of 5 miles. 

1775 — Dec. 22; Vol. 35.— Return of survey for Christo- 
pher Duyckinck, James Downes, Wm. Butler and William 
Kennedy, of sundry lots, containing 3275 acres of land in the 
County (jf Ulster. (Plattekill and Marlborough, Ulster Co.) 

1786 — Feb. 21. — Affidavit of Thomas Palmer and Freder- 
ick Rhinelander. respecting the claim of Solomon Simpson, 
and his associates to lands in New Marlborough, Ulster Co. 
Page 54, Vol. 4L 

1787 — Nov. 19; Vol. 45. — Abstract of letters patent issued 
to Lewis Morris, Augustine Graham, Symon Clarke, Henry 
Wileman, Wm. Bond, Henry Kainer and Alexr. Griggs on 
the loth Feb'y, 1714, for 3600 acres of land in the County of 
Ulster, Marlborough. Page 120. 

1791 — Caveat of Anthony Rutgers against granting to any 
person Wm. Butler's part of lands formerly surveyed for 
James Lendabetter, Charles G3ICS, F. Rhinelander and 
others in New Marlborough, Ulster Co. Page 7L 

1793 — Janv. 26. — Return of survey of 1841 acres of land for 
Daniel Graham, Marlborough, Ulster Co. Vol. 55, Page 1 13. 



50 The History of Marlborough. 

1793 — J ANY. 3, — Notice by Lewis DuBois that he intends 
to apply for grant of a water lot in New Marlborough, 
Ulster Co. Vol. 60, Page 1 54. 

1791 — J ANY. 31. — Petition of Lewis DuBois for a grant of 
land under water at New Marlborough, Ulster Co. Vol. 60, 
Page 156. 

1793 — March 19. — Petition of Lewis DuBois for a grant of 
the flats in Hudson river, opposite his pr()pert3'at Old Man's 
Kill, in New Marlborough, Ulster Co. 

Nov. 20. — Certihcate of certain inhabitants named, of the 
neighborhood of New Marlborough, in favor of the above 
\application. Vol.60; 157. 

Description of the land covered by water of Hudson's 
river, opposite to the farm of Lewis DuBois. 

April 22. — Return of a survey for Lewis DuBois of 28 
acres of land under water at New Marlborough, and map 
of the above land. Vol. 60, Page 159. 

1796 — Feb'y 12. — Certificate of undersigned inhabitants of 
the town of Marlborough, in favor of granting the above 
water lot to Lewis DuBois. Vol. 60; 160. 

Feu'y 16. — Claim of Lewis DuBois for bount}- land, as 
Colonel in the line of this State and in the Army of the 
United States. Vol.60; 161. 

1767 — Nov. 2 ; Vol. 24. — Return of survc}' for Samuel and 
Isaac Fowler of the surplusage of land contained in a lot 
now in their possession, being part of a tract of land granted 
t(j Francis Harrison and others in the County of Ulster 
(Newburgh.) [Note. — Sam'l and Isaac Fowler purchased 
500 acres, part of the Harrison patent, from Samuel Gomoz, 
Nov. 6, 1747. Gomoz was a Jew merchant in New York. 
The creek that runs through Fowler's and Wolfert Acker's 
land was called Jew's creek. Ruttenber's Hist, of New- 
burgh.] 

1786 — Vol. 41. — Copy of John Barbaric's patent for 2000 
acres of land, on the W'cst side of Hudson's river, being part 
of the lands formerly granted to Capt. John E\'ans, dated 
March 24, 1709, Marlborough, Ulster Co. Page 45. 

1787 — N(jv. 19 ; Vol. 45. — Abstract of letters patent issued 



The History of Marlborough. 5 i 

to Lewis Morris, Augustine Graham, Synion Clark, Henry 
Wileman, \Vm. Bond, Henry Rainor and Alexr. Griggs on 
the loth Feby, 17 14, for 3600 acres of land in the County of 
Ulster, at Marlborough. 

1 791 — Auc;. 15. — Proposal of Dan'l Graham to pay 2 shil- 
ling an acre f(jr 2400 acres ()f land in the township of New 
Marlborough, in the County of Ulster. 

1792 — Jan'v 23. — Proposal of Dan'l Graham to pay 3 
shilling an acre for a tract of 2400 acres of land in New 
Marlborough, Ulster Co. 

1793 — Jan'v 14. — Letter of Dan'l Graham to the Commis- 
sioner of the land office explanatory of his proposal to 
purchase 2000 acres of vacant land in Ulster Co. 

Jax'v 26. -Return of survey of 1841 acres of land for 
Dan'l Graham, in ^Llrlb()rough, Ulster Co. 



Bill ok Sale of a Slave. 

The following is a copy of a bill of sale of a slave to Josiah 
Merritt, grandfather of J. C. and P. E. Merritt. The slave 
referred to was the mother of Figaro Milden, and grand- 
mother to Jacob and George Milden, of Marlborough. 

KNOW all men by these presents that I Joseph Sherwood 
of the Town of New Burgh County Ulster and State of New 
York for and in Consideration of the sum (A twenty pounds 
of Current Lawful money to me in hand paid by Josiah 
Merritt of the Town of Marlborough County and wState 
aforesaid PLWE granted bargained and sold and by these 
Presents DO grant bargain and sell imto the sd Josiah Mer- 
ritt one Negro Girl Named Syl Aged Seventeen years To 
have and to hold the said Negro unto the sd Josiah Merritt 
and his Executors Administrators and Assigns for and dur- 
ing the Natural life of Her the sd Girl. And I the said 
Joseph Sherwood for myself my Executors and Adminis- 
trators unto the sd Josiah Merritt his Executors Adminis- 
trators and Assigns against me the said Joseph Sherwood 



52 The Histcny of Marlborough. 

my Executors Administrators and Assii^ns shall and will 
Warrant and Defend by tliese Presents; In witness whereof . 
I have hereuntcj set my Hand and Seal this twenty-eii^hth 
day of March one thousand seven Himdred and ninety- 
three. 

JOSEPH SHERWOOD, [l. s.] 
Sealed & Delivered ) 
in the presence oi \ 

Sarah Mory, 

Jacob De<ri<H>t. 



Deed from Charles Brown to Benjamin Harcourt. 

The following extracts from an old deed show how cheap 
land was in Marlborough in 1828, and give the location of 
lands owned by several old residents : 

This indenture made the twelfth day of April in the year 
of (jur Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, 
between Charles Brown and Margaret, his wife, of the town 
of Marlborough, in the county of Ulster and state of New 
York, of the first part, and Benjamin Harcourt of the same 
town, of the second part, witnesseth that the said parties of 
the first part, ior and in consideration of the sum of ten 
thousand dollars lawful money of New York, to them in 
hand paid, etc., etc., the land described as follows : 

Beginning at the west side of the njad leading to Lattin- 
town, and running thence along the land of Frederick Bar- 
nard, North eighty-seven degrees. East forty-nine chains and 
lorty links to the Northeast corner of the lands hereby in- 
tended to be conveyed, thence along other lands of the said 
parties of the first ])art. South three degrees, West twenty- 
four chains and seventy-five links to the lands of Guernsey 
Smith, thence along lands of the said Smith, Allen Lester 
and John Crook, South eighty-seven degrees. West one hun- 
dred and forty-six chains to the lands of Josiah Lockwood, 
thence along the lands of the said Lockwood, John Kniffin 
and John Cornfield North nineteen degrees. East thirty- 



The History of Marlborough. 53 

four chains and forty links to the lands late of James Butter- 
worth, thence along his lands North seven degrees, East 
eighty-one chains to a point, thence South nine degrees, 
East three chains, eighty-six links, thence South sixty-one 
degrees. East three chains and ten links, thence South 
eighteen degrees, West one chain and seventy-five links to 
the place of beginning, containing four hundred and seven 
acres and one-half of land, be the same more or less, etc., etc. 

CHARLES BROWN. 



Her 

iMARGARET x BROWN. 

iiiiirk 



Signed, sealed and delivered \ 
in the presence of \ 

A. D. Soi'ER. 



Deed from Drakes to Matthew Wv<,an'I'. 

These extracts fr(jm an old deed give a lew jioints as to 
old settlers in Lattintown : 

This indenture, made the sixth day ol October, in the 
year one thousand eight hundred and one, between William 
S. and Samuel Drakes and Rebecker and Mary Drakes, of 
the town of Marlborough, in Ulster county, and state of New 
York, of the first part, and Matthew VVygan', of the same 
place, of the second part, witnesseth, that the said partys ot 
the first part, tor and in consideration of the sum two thous- 
and and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents, etc., etc., all that 
piece or tract of land situate lying ^md being in the town, 
county and state aforesaid, being part of a tract of land 
known and distinguished by the name of the seven patenteen ; 
being the most southerly division ot lot number four ; be- 
ginning at the Southeast corner thereof of chestnut stump, 
standing in the fence and stones around it, trom thence 
North thirty-four degrees. East twelve chains and eighty 
links to a heap of stones set in the line when the said ti-act 
was divided by Charles Clinton, Esq., from thence West as 
the compass pointed when the said tract was first divided. 



54 The History of Marlborough. 

one hundred and fifty-tive chains to the line of the West end 
of the said tract, thence ahjng the line Southwest about twelve 
chains to the Southwest corner oi said lot, thence along the 
line thereof, East one hundred and hfty-three chains to the 
place of beginning, containing one hinuhed and seventy- 
three acres of land, reserving the j)ublick road that leads 
through said lands, that leads from Lattintown to New- 
burgh, and also one rod in breadth on the North side from 
Benjamin Ely's Southeast corner to the main road, which 
Joseph Mory now uses as his private road. The aforesaid 
lands are bounded on the East by Joseph Mory, on the 
North by Joseph Mory, Dr. Benjamin Ely and Levi Quimby, 
on the West by lands granted by letters patent to Daniel 
Graham, deceased, and on the South by the lands of Elisha 
Purdy and Hannah Oonnell, widow, and Joshua Lounsbury 
and Silvenus Purdy, etc., etc. ' 

WILLIAM S. DRAKE. 

SAMUEL DRAKE, 

Her 

REBECKERx DRAKE, 

mark 

MARY DRAKE. 

Sealed and delivered in | 
the presence of \ 

JoSKl'll MoKV. 
Michael Wvgani, Jr. 



An Er.ECiV 

On the death of Capt. Annanias Valentine, Thomas Pinkney 
Isaac Elliot, Jacamiah Crojjsey and Leonard Merritt, all re- 
spectable citizens of the town of Marlborough, who where un- 
fortunately diowned on the Hats in Iront ol the town in 
attempting to go on shore on I'^iday moining, Decemt)er 
12, i<Soo, in a violent storm ol wind and rain. 

Phis |)oem will be recogni/ed by many old residents as 
one which attained consideral)le local celebiit}- in their 
younger days. 



Tlic History of Mnrlhoroiii^h. 55 

Come all ye good people, of every degree, 
And listen with attention one moment to me, 
For a soiTowful story I mean to relate, 
Of a mournful disaster that happened of late. 

Oh, MarlI)orough ! tremble at this awful stroke. 
Consider the voice of Jehovali, that spoke 
To teaoli us we're mortals, exposed to death 
And subject each moment to yield up our breath. 

Oh, reader! these cofHns exhil^it to view 

A striking? example that's mournfully true 

To show thee that death will be thy certain doom, 

That shortly the body must enter the tomb 

On f riday, the twelth of December, so cold. 
In the year eighteen hundred, as I have been told. 
The wind blowing high and the rain beating down, 
A vessel arrived at Marlborough town. 

The anchor being cast and their sails stowed away 
All hands for the shore pre]>ared straight avvav. 
Down into the boats soon all did repair, 
And unto the shore were preparing to steer. 

But, mark their sad fortune, mournful indeed ! 
Yet no man can hinder what God has decreed. 
For the councils of heaven, on that fatal day, 
By death in an instant called a number a. way. 

A number of men in their health and their prime 
Called out of this world in an instant of time. 
For their boats turning over plunged all in the deep. 
And five out of seven in death fell asleep. 

A vessel at anchor was lying near by. 

The men in the cabin heard their piercing cry : 

To grant them relief they hasten with speed. 

And two of their number from the water were freed. 

These sorrowful tidings were carried straightway 
To their friends and relations without more delay. 
But, Oh ! their lamenting no tongue can express, 
Nor point out their sorrow, great grief and distress. 

Three wives widowed, left in sorrow to mourn 
The loss of their husbands, no more to return ; 
Besides a great nuaiber of ori)lians, we hear. 
Lamenting the fate of their parents so dear. 



56 The History of MarlborongJi. 

Also a yoiuig damsel lort mournin;^' alouu 
For the untimely death of her lover that's sone : 
For the day of their nviptials appointed had been 
In the bonds of sweet wedlock these lovers to join. 

Yet, alas! their lamentings are all in vain. 
Their husbands are drowned, they can't tliem regain. 
Their friends and relations came now too late, 
The council of heaven had sealed their fate. 

Their bodies lieing found were all conveyed home 
And the Sabbath day following i)repared for the tomb. 
Their bodies in their coffins were laid side by side 
In Marlborough mee':ing house alley so wide. 

A numerous concourse of people straightway 
Attended with sorrow on that mournful day. 
To see the remains of the neighbors so dear, 
And join their relations in a friendly tear. 

A sermon was preached on the occasion also, 
While the people attended with a solemn awe, 
To see such a number by death snatched away, 
Who all lay before them as lifeless as clay. 

The sermon being ended the corp.ses were conveyed. 
And in the cold caverns of earth they were laid, 
Where now we must leave them to molder to dust 
Until the resurrection of the just and unjust. 

To the widows and mourners o'erwdielmed with grief: 
May you all trust in God, who will grant you relief. 
He'll ease all your sorrows and soothe all your jmin, 
And linally take you to glory to i^eign. 

Come all that are living and know you must die, 

I i)ray you take warning V>y this tragedy, 

That when death shall call you and close up your eyes, 

Your souls may be hapi^y with Christ in the skies. 



PRECINCT MEETINGS. 



The following extracts from the earl}- records of the New- 
hiiigli Precinct meetings, will be of interest, as Marlborough 
was then incluclcd in the territory, and a niunber of hrst set- 
tler's names will be found in the record : 

At a Precinct meeting at the house of Capt. Jonathan 
Haslorouck, f(M' the precinct of Newburgh, the first Tuesda}* 
in Ai)ril, in the 3'ear oi our Loid one thousand se\en hun- 
dred and sixty-three, according to an act of Assembly for 
that [)urpose. 

Samuel Sands, Clerk. 

Capt. Jonathan llasbrouck. Supervisor. 

Ricliairl 1 Tarkcr, Jesse Windheld, Samuel Wiatt, Assess- 
ors. 

David Gidney, Constable. 

Henry Smith, Collector. 

fosc|)h Gidney, Benjamin Woolse}', Poor Masters. 

John McCrar}^ John Wandal, Burras Holmes,- Isaac Fow- 
ler, Humphrey ATcrritt, Thomas Woolsey, Path Masters. 

Nathan Putd}', Isaac Fowler, Fence Viewers and Apprais- 
ers of Damages. 

Lenard Smith clmse l<> collect the (|uit rent, the patent he 
now lives on. 

Then adjorned to the house ol Capt. Jonathan Flasbrouck. 

1764. — The town ofihcers were: 

Samuel Sands, Clerk. 

Lewis DuBois, Supervisor. 

Nehemiah Dent(^n, Henry Tarbush, Peter Ostrandcr, As- 
sessors. 

Samuel Winslow, Constable and Collector. 

Daniel Thurstern, Michael Demott, Poor Masters. 



58 TJic History of MarlhorongJi. 

Cornelius Wood, Martin Wyi^ant, Leonard Smith, Henr}- 
Smith, Gilbert Denton, Edward Ilallock, Benjamin Carpen- 
ter, I'ath Masters. 

Samuel Spras^ue, Henr}' Smith, Jehiel Clark, David Purd}', 
Isaac Fowler, Founders. 

1767. — Silas Wood, Constable, to take his fees from Isaac 
Smith's house. 

1768. — It is agreed on by Stephen Case and Micajah 
Lewis, candidates for Constable, than whoever of them is 
chosen Constable for the 3'ear ensuino^, that they will appoint 
two deputies to serve under them, such as shall be agreeable 
to the inhabitants, such deputies to have full fees for what 
they serve, and shall be obliged to give the Constable suret}^ 
etc., and shall serve his turn in tending our General Court. 

1769. — Voted, at annual meeting, that the sum of ^^30 be 
raised for the su[)])ort of the poor lor the 3"ear ensuing. 
That Martin Weygant be Founder for the German patent 
and all adjoining. 

1 77 1. — Rule first, voted, as an encouragement to all suc- 
ceeding Foor masters, the more faithtull}' to discharge their 
duty in their office, by preventing all unnecessar}' charges 
and needless costs on the inhabitants of the Frecinct, and 
also a reward for their good service, we freely vote them 
the sum of /,"i 10 each, etc. 

Rule Third. — That no Foor master for the time being 
shall for any cause whatever, relieve or cause to be relieved, 
or made chargeable, any person or jjerscMis whatever, that 
may 1)\' law be transi^orted, or any private person can be 
mafle accountable for according to law, on pain of perjury, 
and making themselves liable to pay all such charges, and 
forfeit to the use of the poor twenty shillings and charges of 
prosecution, to be recovered before any of his Majesty's 
Justices of the Feace, etc. 

1772. — And it is voted, that the Assessors shall have for 
their serving the sum of £\Af each, |)rovided the}' go to every 
man's house and make the encpiiry of their substance, and 
they are not excused of working on the road. 

^,30 voted to support the jioor. 



The History of Marlborough. 59 

1773. — Voted that ^,"50 be raised to sin)})()i"t the pocjr, and 
Pocjr masters have i>2io. 

1777. — V^oted ^100 be raised lor the poor. 

1778. — Voted that any })erson tliat shall take eattle to keep 
on the commons ol this Fi"ecinct, from persons out of another 
Precinct, shall l)e subject to be assessed for them, etc. 

Voted that the donations collected in this Precinct be 
a|)|)lied to sucli po(3r whose husbands or parents were either 
killed or taken prisoners at Fort Montgomery, etc. 



Town JNIeetings. 

The precinct of New Marlborough was set off from New- 
burgh March 12, 1772, and the precinct became a tcjwn by 
act of the legislature March 7, 1788. Conse(|uenllv the 
meetings were called precinct meetings between those dates, 
and since then town meetings. F^lattekill was re})resented 
at these meetings prior to 1800. The first precinct meeting 
was held at the house of Henry Deyo, April 7, 1772. At 
this meeting Abijah Perkins was chosen clerk ; supervisor, 
Lewis DuBois; Assessors, John Yonge, Jacob Wood, Mar- 
cus Ostrander ; poormasters, Robert Merritt, Joseph Mory ; 
commissioners, Richard VVoolsey, Durmee Relyea; pounder, 
Silas Purely ; fence viewers, Caleb Merritt, Richard Carpen- 
ter ; pathmasters, Gabriel Merritt, James Ouimby, Jacob 
Wood, Samuel Merritt, Henry Deyo; constable, W^illiam 
Martin. ' 

The second precinct meeting was held at Richard Carpen- 
ter's, April 6, 1773. At this time the first road districts were 
laid out. These original districts were again dividetl in 
1 779. 

In 1776 the precinct meeting was held at Silas Purdy's inn. 
The first meeting after the precinct became a town was held 
April 7, 1778, when ^^"125 were voted for the poor, and " also 
to collect this year for the last two years Rearages," amount- 
ing to ;^70. At this meeting it was also "Voted that John 



6o TJic History of Marlborojigli. 

Davis, last year's collector, be paid sixteen })Ounds for bad 
money he lost ni the connty treasury, out ol the poor fund." 

At the town meeting held in Lattintown April 4, 1780, it 
\vas voted that collect(jr this year be j^aid a bad thirty dollar 
bill out of the first spare poor money. 

In 1785 the meeting voted that road No. 2 Ironi Lattin- 
town " somewhere along by Moses Ouimby's, up tt) the 
Faltz precinct, be known as No. 26." 

The easy manner in which collectors were remunerated 
for bad bills, seems to have caused several dishonest free- 
holders to try to take advantage of the easy methods, and 
swear they had paid their tax when such was not the case, 
for May 29, 1790, the following was passed: "Voted, that 
the town in general shall pay no taxes for any indi\ idual in 
[^articular who })retends to have |)aid theirs twice over." 

The town granted its first li(iuor licenses in 1792, the price 
being ^,2 each. The loUowing took out licenses: David 
Merritt, Jacob Powell, Thomas Mott, Daniel Crawlord, 
Chris. Ostrander, Ebenezer Foote, Caleb Merritt, William 
Ostrander and Kicli'd Lewis. 

April 2, 1793, it was "Voted, unanimously, that the dog 
tax be finally disannulled." 

In 1794 David Merritt was town clerk. He was tlie first 
to hold that office who wrote a respectable hand, and, his 
penmanship in the town records is very good. 

.\pril 7, 1795, the town " V()uted that the supposed wife of 
and is wot the wile of Kobert Gilmore to be transported and 
not t ; be chargeal)le any more to the town of Marlborough." 

A[)ril 5, 1796, at the town meeting, " Voted, theft all inn- 
holders ol the town or taxeink;.- 'i)ers shall i)a\ the excise 
mone>'s down or No 1 be permitted to retail Sjnritus Lick- 
wor." .Also "Voted, no liquor shall be sold at the next 
town meeting and no Mors racing shal Be don under the 
I'enalty of five i)oimds line." 

In 1799 it was " Voted, that our lu-xt annual town meet ing 
be held at the house ol IJeuiijah and Sanuiel Wright, in 
Pleasant Valley, and l)\- an agreement between the people 
on the West side ol the moimtains and those on the Last 



TJie History of MarlborougJi. 6i 

side, the town meetinj^ is to be held alternately on the West 
and East side," the Supervisor to be chosen from the side 
where held. 

This agreement was not of long- duration, however, for the 
following year Plattekill was set off as a town by itself, and 
held its town meetings independently. 

On May i, 1800, an election for Senator was held in town. 
Eighty-four votes were cast for fifteen candidates. There 
do not appear to have been any party nominations for most 
of the names voted belonged to residents of Marlborough. 



MSNUFBCTURING 



Marlborough Factories. 

Grist mills and saw mills were the first manufacturing- 
industries carried on in Marlborough village. Major Lewis 
UuBois ran two grist mills, one where the large manufac- 
turing building oi Theodore Knii^in now stands, corner of 
Main and Landing streets, and the other the mill now occu- 
j)ied by VVoolsey Wright. 

There was also a grist mill on Buckley's creek, built by 
Charles Millard, afterwards run by a man named Angell. 
it subsequently became the property of John Buckley, and 
Gabriel Merritt used to run it fifty oi" sixty years ago. 

A saw mill was located on this creek, back of the ceme- 
tery, and logs were lloated up there. Gabriel Merritt also 
attended to this saw mill. 



John Buck lev and His IN L\nu factories. 

From Sylvester's " History oi lUster County " we take the 
lollowing acc(nmt of John Buckley's manufacturing enter- 
prises, which was obtained directly from his descendants, 
and is authentic : 

John Buckley, of Marll)or()ugh, was among the eaiiy 
manufacturers of this state. Fie was born in Jaffray, N. H., 
May 3, 1786, and educated at the iniblic school in his native 
town. Having a decided liking for mechanical operations, 
he learjled the trade ol a wheel-\'.-ngiU and itiachhiiot. In 
1805 he was employed by Almy & Brown, of Providence, 



The History of MarlborongJi. 63 

where he became acquainted with Samuel Slater, the father 
of American manufacturers, who was then engaged in manu 
facturing and building cotton machinery in Pawtucket. It 
is said that' most ol the manufacturing establishments erected 
in different parts of the country from 1791 to 1808 were built 
by men who had directly or indirectly drawn their knowl- 
edge of the business from Providence or Pawtucket. Mr. 
Buckley was employed over three years in the extensive 
machine shops of Almy cSr Brown, where he acquired a 
thorough knowledge of his business. In 1809 the Pleasant 
Valley (Cotton) Manufacturing Company, in Dutches:- 
County, was incorporated, when he was engaged to super- 
intend the construction of their water-wheel and running 
gear, and the greater part of their machinery. After this 
was completed, and the mill in successful operation, he was 
invited to join the "Cornwall Cotton Manufactory," re- 
cently chartered (181 1), in which he was a stockholder, 
where he superintended the building of their wheel and 
machinery. y\t this time there was an increasing demand 
for all kinds of domestic goods, and a large amoimt of capital 
was invested in cotton and woolen manufactories. During 
war of 1 81 2 this ca[)ital w^as very productive, but at itscl'jjj 
the British manufacturers, having large quantities of goouo, 
on hand, adapted and originally intended for the American 
markets, poured them into this country to an amount tar 
beyond the wants of the people or their ability to pay, wMh 
a double view of vending their goods and ruining the rival 
establishments of this country. These goods were forced on 
the market and sold at auction at such ruinous prices that 
most of the manufacturers were obliged to stop their works, 
and many of them failed. Mr. Buckley was not discouraged ; 
feeling confident that manufacturers would soon be pro- 
tected by a judicious tariff, he purchased in the spring ol 
181 5 the carding and spinning-mill which had been esU. j- 
lished in Marlborough about 1810-11. He also purchased a 
farm. Here he commenced carding and spinning woo! lor 
the farmers in Orange and Ulster Counties. Soon after lie 
added several looms and began making cloth. This enter- 



64 The History of Marlborough. 

prise was so successful that he enlarged his mill. In 1822 
he entered into partnership with his brother-in-laws, James 
and John Thorne, under the firm of Thornes & Buckley. The 
mill was again enlarged, and known as the " Marlborough 
W(^olen Factory." At this time they commenced making 
broadcloth and satinets. Most of the operatives engaged in 
woolen factories were Englishmen; the foremen in the dif- 
ferent departments commanded high wages, and sometimes 
it was difficult to get good and experienced men, especially 
dyers. Mr. Buckley was obliged to take this department 
under his especial charge. He soon established a reputation 
for durable and brilliant colors, which the mill enjoyed as 
long as the firm continued business. Their cloths were 
regularly exhibited at the fairs in New York, where in 1823 
they received a premium of a silver pitcher for the best 
piece of blue broadcloth manufactured from American \yool. 
After the " American Institute " was organized there were 
frequent exhibitions of these cloths, and the firm always re- 
ceived the diplomas of the institution. For many years 
their cloths were sold by Thomas Dixon cS: Co., an English 
commission house on Pine street. 

Mr. Thorne used to relate with particular satisfaction a 
little incident that showed how prejudiced the leading fash- 
ionable tailors were in favor of English cloths. He had 
tried several times to sell an invoice of his goods to a Broad- 
way tailoring establishment. The senior partner spurned at 
the idea of their making up American cloths. Happening 
to meet the. same man at Mr. Dixon's store, he called to Mr. 
Thorne, and said, " Mr. Thorne, here is the kind of cloths 
we want. Your American manufacturers can't give your 
cloths such a finish as these have." Mr. Thorne observing 
that they were his own goods, made no reply, and turned 
quietly away. 

The firm was dissolved in 1830. Mr. Buckley continued 
the business until 1855, when he converted his factory into 
a cotton mill, making twine and cott(Mi warps. This he con- 
tinued until the commencement of the Rebellion, in 1861, 
when he ceased manufacturing. A few years altcrward he 



Tlie History of MarlborougJi. 65 

sold all the machinery in the mill and retired from business. 
He died in Marlboro, June i, 1870, in the eighty-hfth year of 
his ag"e. For more than fifty years he had been actively en- 
gaged in manufacturing, giving employment- to a large mun- 
ber of operatives, never having any difficulty with any of 
them, and always retained tiieir confidence and esteem. 



Other Old Factories. 

The first carding machine in the town was erected on Old 
Man's Creek, as early as 1810 11. It stood near Woolsey's 
ice house. Another was soon alter cstablised hy a man 
named Longbotham. 

The first fulling mill was owned by Lewis DuBois, and 
built about 1806. 

In the year of 1826 a fulling mill, on Old Man's Creek, 
was operated by David Waters. He was followed by a man 
named Stratton, who commenced the manufacture of broad- 
cloths. Joseph Hepworth and James Longbotham followed 
in turn. In 1830 Hepworth moved up to the Greaves' mill, 
where he and Cornelius DuBois operated a woolen mill for 
a great many years. The mill was subsequently leased to 
Joshua Bailey, who ran it as a shodd}- mill until the dam 
was carried away in the freshet of 1855 or 1856, 

Curtis Wright, father of Woolsey Wright, had a cooper 
shop in Marlborough for a number of years. 

On the site of the Stratton mill Kirk lSt Bower carried on 
business for a time. It is now a grist mill, operated by 
Woolsey Wright. 

In 1862 a paper mill was built by Nathaniel Adams, on the 
present site of the Whitney Basket Co.'s works. To this 
day old buttons can be picked up in the ravine below, where 
the}' were thrown by rag sorters in the mill. Miles J. 
Fletcher had an interest in the mill, and it w^as operated by 
Robert Beebe cS: Co., imtil Fletcher made an assignment. 
Later the property was owned by Augustus Clark, and H. 



66 TJic History of Marlborougli. 

H. Holden. Tlie manufacture of hymn-book paper was the 
principal work of the mill. Subsequently Hensebeck, Slee 
& CoUingwood, of Poughkeepsic, bought it, and made a 
failure. Then the Rahway Glue Co. ran it as a glue factory, 
which was not successful, and the property was taken by 
the mortgagee, Isaac Staples. Jime i, 1876, Nathaniel 
DuBois bought it, and established the Whitney Basket Co. 

The lower grist mill, operated now by B. B. Apgar, was 
built by Robt. B. Minturn about the same time as the paper 
mill. The old DuBois mill, now torn down, was operated 
in 1826 by William Seabring and Jeremiah Clark. 

The shodd}' mill above the old property site, operated by 
Sheard cSr Gibson, was erected as a grist mill by Matthew 
T. Berrian. Joshua Bailey subsequently engaged there in 
the manufacture of blankets and carpets. A paper mill 
just below was owned by David Mimn, and run b}' Patten 
& Beebe. 

George Archer had a machine shop at Marlborough village 
at quite an early da}-, where DeWitt Kniffin's cup factory is 
now located. 

William S. Clark iS: Son have in^ successful operation a 
large flouring mill on Old Man's Creek, above Marlboro vil- 
lage. It h)rmerl3' belonged to John Kniffin, and was rim by 
him for many 3'ears. It was at one time operated by Cor- 
nelius W. Wygant. 

On Jews Creek Andrew Oddy oi)erated a rag machine at 
an early da}', and continued in the business for a great many 
years. 



TiiK Whitney Baskkt Factory. 

This large and prosperous concern had its beginning at 
Milton in 1853, when John F. Whitney started to manu- 
facture fruit baskets. In [862 he took his son, Mr. ()li\er 
B. Whitney, into partnership, undci- the name of John F. 
Whitne)' t^ Son. In June, 18765 the present factory was 



The History of Marlborough. 6y 

built on the site of tlie old j)aper mill, the })r()perty of Mr. 
Nathaniel H. DuBois, who united with Mr. Whitney under 
the style of The Whitney Basket Co. 

The main |)ortion of the new factory is i6o feet long, and 
there is a wing- 42 feet in width, all three stories high, with 
basement. Back of the factory is a large building used as a 
storehouse, dwelling and wagon house. This is 30x60 feet, 
and has four Hoors, including the attic and basement. An 
additional drying house, 30x55 feet, was built in 1885. 

There are also two steam drying chest on the first floor, 
Cci[)ablc of containing 150,000 baskets each. 

At the east end of the factory is the blacksmith shop. 

In the basement of the main factory is placed the shafting 
which transmits power to the machines abcn'c, consisting of 
pUuiing and slitting machines, gang saws, cutters and .two 
rotary veneer machines. These are remarkable pieces of 
mechanism. They receive a big log, somewhat alter the 
manner of a lathe. The log revolves against a stationary 
knile, which peels off sheets a twentieth of an inch (or more) 
in thickness. During each revolution the log is gradually 
raised one-twentieth of an inch, by which means is preserved 
a uniform thicl<,ness of the sheet. Other knives divide the 
wo(jd into pr()[)er widths, while some merely cut one-halt 
through, for convenience in bending the corners of the 
baskets. 

This industry is the largest and most valuable one estab- 
lished in Marlb(n"o, and is kept running the year round, al- 
though the season for selling is of course confined to the 
summer months. Thirty men and sixty women and girls are 
employed at the factory, the pay roll amounting to $500 })er 
week. They use very good wood in their baskets — beech, 
birch and bass wood — none of which alTect the Havor of the 
fruit, as is the case with pine and some other woods. The 
logs are cut in lengths of four and a half to five feet, (used 
green and soft) and placed in a steam vat 28 feet long, and 
capable of cositaining 25 logs at a time. There they soak.|.8 
Uours or more, au'd are then turned over to the veneer 
machine. 



68 The History of MarlborougJi. 

The baskets are made up on the second floor, a former 
being used, over which the wood is bent, and held in [)lace 
by an injn band while the rim is tacked on. 

The Company manufacture more of the square cpiart 
baskets than any other kind ; also a great many " Jimibo" 
gift baskets, they being especially in demand because they 
do not have to be returned to the shippers. More than a 
million scjuare quartsare made annually, and nearly as many 
of the gift crates. Next come peach baskets, strawberry, 
American quart, Centennial, round quart, Paragon, Beccher, 
verbena, snides, etc. The total output is nearly 5,000,000 a 
year. 

An idea of the immensity of the business may be gathered 
from the fact that forty kegs of one kind of tacks constitute 
an ordinary purchase. They are made of Swede's iron and 
barbed to prevent their pulling out of the wood. 

The manufacture of crates is a large part of the firms' 
business. The gift crate, gotten up by Mr. N. H. DuBois 
some half dozen years ago, has a very large sale, being used 
in connection with the gift baskets, which were designed by 
Mr. O. B. Whitney. The gift crates hold 50 pounds of 
grapes, and are very neat and simple in construction. 

The raj)idity with which baskets and crates are made up 
is astonishing. Often a log is taken from the dock in the 
morning and goes down the river in the evening in the shape 
of crates and baskets filled with fruit. When there is a rush 
for a particular kind of crate or basket, frequently a long 
string of wagons may be seen at the factory waiting until 
more are made, and they do not have to wait long either. 

A thirty-horse turbine wheel and forty-horse engine sup- 
ply the power at the factory, the engine bei-ng used more or 
less as the water is scarce or plenty to supply the turbine. 
The Company avails itself of every modern contrivance for 
assisting the manufacture of its goods, in fact most of its 
machinery was designed here, as this is the leading basket 
factory in the country. 

The Western Union Telegraph Co. has an office in the 
building so that the Company can receive orders from New 
York as (juickly as from Marlborough. 




^^./v.yr 



WHITNEY BASKET FACTORY— ERECTED 1876. (Page 68.) 



TJie History of Marlborough. 69 

Sheard & Gibson's Woolen Mill. 

Thomas Sheard and John H. Gibson established their mill 
in Marlboro in April, 1875, in a very modest way, in a 24x34 
building. Their special business is the manufacture of bed 
and horse blankets. Their trade has grown materially, and 
they now occupy the commodious factory building north of 
the village, close to Western avenue. Their main structure 
is 105x34 feet. Five smaller buildings in the vicinity are 
used for picking, dyeing and drying, and one is the engine 
and boiler house. The firm also operate the old Bailey mill 
half a mile up the stream. 

On the first floor of the main factory are two large rooms, 
styled the fuller and finishing rooms. Above is the spin- 
ning and carding department, and on the third floor the 
weaving is done. 

The full capacity of the factory is forty hands, of both 
sexes, and 800 to 1000 blankets a day. The machinery used 
is expensive, and there is a great deal of it. The power is 
furnished by a thirty-six horse water wheel, and with the 
aid of the steam engine the force can be increased to one 
hundred horse power. In 1883 some $17,000 worth of new 
machinery was added, and the total value of the plant is now 
over $30,000. 

The present year (1887) arrangements are being made to 
enlarge their facilities, land being acquired for new buildings 
and for the enlargement of the dam. 

A brief description of the methods of manufacture may be 
of interest. The material is first brought in fiom the pick- 
er's department, where it has been prepared for the cards. 
Next it goes to a spinning machine, where it is made ready 
for the loom ; then to the weaving room, the fuller, and to 
the masher to be cleaned. A hydraulic extractor is used to 
drive out the water. This machine is a very interesting 
study. The soft, mashy compound is whirled around at a 
tremendous sj)eed, driving out the water by centrifugal force. 
The coloring and finishing processes follow, and the blankets 
gre ready for the cutter. The spinning mule is self-adjust- 



70 The History of Marlborough. 

ing, and extends the entire length of the second floor. Here 
the yarn runs in and out in a manner very complex to the 
uninitiated observer, finally winding on to bobbins for the 
loom. On the third flo(H- the looms are used to make up the 
blankets, and here they are stored until sold. 



Greaves' Dye and Carpet Works. 

Joseph Greaves' dye manufactory was started in May, 
i860, in a two-story frame building, near the present factory 
at the lower end ol Greaves' pond. The firm was (originally 
composed of Joseph Greaves and William Reed, but after a 
time Reed withdrew. Their factory was destroyed by fire 
about four years ago, when brick buildings were substituted. 
These have been constantly increased in size and niunber 
until now there are five substantial buildings in the factory 
proper, and two tenant houses and J(jseph Greaves' hand- 
some residence on the premises. The factory is largely 
devoted to the manufacture of aniline dyes, man}' of which 
have no counterpart in the country, and no visitors are 
allowed in portions of the factory in order that the secret 
may be preserved. The business is large and permanent. 

Joseph Greaves, jr., carries on the manufacture of ingrain 
carpets, which forms a considerable portion of the business. 
Only the very best grades of goods are manufactured. The 
capacity of this branch of the business has been increased 
recently, and business booms. The establishment of the 
Messrs. Greaves has been and is a material advantage to 
Marlborough, 

Greaves' pond is a sheet of water, nearly half a mile long, 
formed by the damming of the Old Man's creek. It fur- 
nishes power for the dye and carpet factory, and some day 
in all pnjbability will furnish the water supply for Marl- 
boroug^h. 



Tlie Mist or y of Marlborough. 7 1 

DeWitt Kniffin started a berry cup and fruit crate factory 
about 1867, adjoining the Methodist church. About ten 
years later he removed to his present location on Western 
avenue. He employs about a dozen hands, and manufac- 
tures all varieties of cups and crates, his trade being mostly 
local. 



Milton Factories. 

Just a statute mile above the Milton R. R. station on the 
West Shore, juts out into the river a small square dock, in a 
dilapidated condition, at present, that has been for a long 
time a landmark. Its history dates back to 1770 or previous, 
when it was built by Capt. Anning Smith, who had a woolen 
mill there. The old load leading to it was known as the 
King's highway, and there can be but little doubt but that 
it was among the first roads opened up for the convenience 
of settlers at a distance from the great water-way. At pres- 
ent the structure is known as the pin factory dock. About 
forty-two years ago a company from Poughkeepsie, whose 
projectors were Messrs. Jewett, Howard, Moseley and Van 
Vliet, leased the water-power formed by a small stream 
which comes foaming to the river over a very steep ledge 
of rocks, descending almost one hundred and thirty 
feet, while making an advance of le.s than three hundred 
toward the Hudson. Upon the land leased in connection 
with the power a brick structure was erected, and the manu- 
facture of solid-headed pins was commenced and continued 
for a few years, when the company sold its machinery and 
the rights in such improvements as it had made upon them 
in the mean time to a company in Waterbury, Conn., whose 
patents they had infringed. Previous to the erection of the 
pin factory it was known as the " old dock." A store house 
used to stand near it, and some portions of the old founda- 
tions were upturned when the railroad cutting ^'v'as made. 
Sloops were built and launched near it. Just upon the edge 
of the bank, at the top of the fall, the Indians buried their 



72 The History of Marlborough. 

dead. Tradition has it that the places of sepulture were 
plainly seen when the land was first occupied by the whites. 
It would also teem that for a long time the red men's bones 
were allowed to rest in peace. Not only so, but the place 
was honored, for just at the west, and almost side by side 
with the remains of the forest children, the earliest settlers 
laid their loved ones to sleep. Here nameless graves are 
seen in abiuidance, indicated by common, fiat, mossy stones 
at the head and foot. Nearly an acre of land is thus com- 
pletely covered. East of this plot and about half wa)^ down 
the river bank by the brook's side is the old mill scat. The 
foundations have been removed recently, and the presence 
of two worn mill stones alone indicates the fact that Anning 
Smith's Hour mill once stood there. At an early day this 
mill-seat was deemed too valuable to be disposed of, as was 
much of the land about here, and rights in it were reserved 
for the purpose of sawing the plentiful supply of timber 
growing near. Forty acres of land were duly surveyed and 
described and held in common with the mill privilege. 

In 1844 wSumner Colman started a wheelbarrow factory at 
the pin factory dock, wdiich was burned out in 1852. New 
buildings were then constructed near the dock and the 
manufacture was carried on in a much larger scale, John 
Newman coming from Newburyport, Mass., in 1854, to take 
charge of it. In 1861 he bought the factory, and in 1864 he 
took John H. and S. O. F. Colman into partnership under 
the style of John Newman & Co. 

In 1870 the factoi-y was again burned, but rebuilt much 
larger in dimensions. In 1875 Mr. Colman withdrew, and 
the business was carried on under the name of John New- 
man cS: Son. John Newman was paralyzed in 1881 and gave 
up active business, dying March 23, 1884. John H. New- 
man continued the business until his death Sept. 30, 1885. 
when the business was closed up by his son, Frank New- 
man, and the property disposed of to H. H. Bell & Sons and 
converted into a plush factory. 

The power at Smith's pond was used before the war for 
the making of corn mills for the Southern trade. A pros- 



'Hie History of Marlborough. ji 

perous business was carried on for several years, but the 
breaking ont of the war destroyed the market, and caused 
the closing of the factory. 

James Hall and Jacob Rowley ran auger factories in Mil- 
ton at an early date. 

In 1822 Moses Birdsall ran a hat factory, which closed up 
in 1830. William A. Field conducted a hat factory after 
that date. 



The Bell Manufactory of Knit Goods, Etc. 

In 1880 Henry H. Bell, and his two sons, Winslow M. 
and Arthur E., moved from Long Island and started a plush 
and glove-lining factory at the old pin building, below 
Smith's pond. Their business grew steadily, and in 1886 
they bought the wheelbarrow factory near Milton depot and 
landing, altering it to suit their increasing trade. 

Henry H. Bell has practically retired from the manage- 
ment of the business, and his sons have run it since 1884. 
They have spent several thousand dollars in improving their 
new factory, which now contains about 17,000 sq. feet of 
flooring. It is four stories high and built in fire-proof com- 
partments that can be closed up in case of fire. 

The process of manufacture is full ot interest. They pur- 
chase their wool and cotton in large quantities, already 
wound on paper bobbins, called caps or tubes. These are 
taken by girls and wound by winding machines on to large 
wooden spools, each containing two pounds of yarn. These 
spools are then taken to the knitting machines, which are 
automatic wonders. Imagine a great cylinder of cloth a 
yard in diameter rising from a machine, with hundreds of 
little wheels and threads, each performing its important 
work. If a thread breaks, or a hole is made in the cloth, 
the machine stops automatically for the operator to adjust 
the difficulty. Over a million stitches are made per minute 
on these machines. 



■ 74 'i'^^^ History of Marlborough. 

The cloth is then taken to the menders, who mend all 
holes and crochet the drop stitches; thence to the wash 
house where the oil and dirt is taken out. After cleansing, 
the goods are dyed in different tubs, according to the color 
desired, and afterwards wrung out in a machine called the 
" Hydraulic Extractor." This is a large cylinder into which 
the wet goods are packed. It revolves at the rate of three 
miles per minute and the centrifugal force drives out the 
water leaving the cloth almost dry. The remaining moisture 
is taken out by hot-air drying machines. 

The cloth is then cut longitudinally and wrapped on rol- 
lers for the brushing machines. These raise the nap and 
finish the goods. Afterwards they are measured and ex- 
amined in the finishing room. 

This factory gives employment to a number of men and 
girls, and is one of the permanent institutions of Milton. 



Walter Millard's Sons' Lumber Trade. 

The history of the rise and growth of the great lumber 
and coal firm of Walter Millard's Sons' properly belongs to 
Marlborough, although the main offices are now in Dutchess 
county. 

In 1802 Charles Millard, grandfather of the present mem- 
bers of the firm, was living on what is now the Buckley 
property, and established and ran two saw mills on Jews 
creek. 

From an advertisement in the " Political Index" published 
in Newburgh in 1809, is obtained the following description 
of the mill seat : It was located " within half a mile of the 
Meeting-House, containing about twenty-three acres of good 
land, with a handsome grove of timber, and a young orchard 
of the best ingrafted fruit, and a variety of other fruit trees. 
The situation is very pleasant. There is on the premises a 
good dwelling house, a barn with other outhouses, also a 
never-failing run or rill oi water within a few feet of the 



The History of Marlborough. 75 

kitchen, and a good well. Also a grist mill and a saw mill, 
so constructed as to take the logs out of the water without 
any expense of land carriage. It will cut eight or ten hun- 
dred logs in a year. The buildings are all well finished. 
There is also a convenient place on the premises for a fulling 
and plaister mill." 

At these mills Charles Millard made a specialty of sawing 
white pine lumber, such as is generally used for sash doors, 
finishing, siding and flooring. This business he continued 
until 1824, assisted by his sons John, James, Charles, Wil- 
liam and VV^alter. 

His trade grew steadily, extending over in Dutchess Co. 
even to the Connecticut line, and a considerable distance up 
and down the river. Most of the lumber was shipped in 
winter by teams over the ice, the bulk of the trade coming 
Irom the east side of the Hudson, owing to the manner in 
which Marlborough is shut in from the west by the moun- 
tains. During the siurrmer timber was received in rafts from 
Glen Falls, Fort Edward and the neighborhood of Lake 
Champlain. In 1824 the Champlain canal was opened. The 
same year Charles Millard removed his residence to New 
Hamburgh, establishing a lumber yard at that place. Most 
of his lumber alter that time came from head waters of the 
Hudson and Lake Champlain. 1829 Charles Millard died. 
Walter, his son, succeeded him in the lumber business attend- 
ing to that business alone until 1834. In that year he con- 
nected himself with the freighting business, running the 
sloop Melan. The year following he built the barge Lex- 
ington to do the freighting, taking in as partner, Uri Mills, 
who had one-third interest. 

In 1844 they purchased the dock property at Marlborough 
of the DuBois estate. A freighting business was immedi- 
ately established in connection with that at New Hamburgh. 
The same year the steamboat Splendid was purchased and 
ran from Marlborough and New Hamburgh on Mondays 
and Thursdays. 

A lumber business was also established at Marlborough. 
In 1851 the partnership with Uri Mills was dissolved. Freight- 



'jd The History of Marlborough. 

ing business was continued in name of W*. Millard & Co. 
In 1854 W. Millard retired from freighting business, con- 
tinuing the lumber business at both places. 

John P. Millard, nephew of Walter, and H. H. Holden, 
succeeded to the freighting and steamboat business, and in 
1857 put the propellor Wyoming on their line. Holden 
soon withdrew and Samuel N. Millard took his place, the 
style of the firm being J. P. Millard & Bro. They carried 
on the freight and lumber business at Marlborough and 
freighting business at New Hamburgh. 

In 1863 Wm. B. Millard became a partner with his father 
in the lumber business, the firm being then W. Millard & 
Son. In 1880 Walter Millard died, and the business was 
managed by Wm. B. Millard and his executors until 1884, 
when the present firm of Walter Millard's Sons was formed. 

The immense trade which this firm enjoys has been the 
gradual growth of years, but received its greatest boom at 
the outbreak of the civil war. In 1861 the popular opinion 
was that great commercial depression would immediately 
prevail, and values decrease. Walter Millard thought dif- 
ferently and went to the wholesale lumber district, buying 
up all the lumber he could find, at low rates. The stock 
then laid in was sufficient to last the firm three or lour 
years, with its already great trade. The wisdom of his 
course was soon apparent. Prices advanced steadily. He 
was able to sell at the lowest wholesale price. From that 
day to this, the impetus which the business then received 
has increased. 

The dock property in Marlborcjugh, familiarly known as 
the "lower dock," is but a small branch of this great firm's 
possessions. They have other branches at Wappingers 
Falls and Stormville, while their headquarters are in New 
Hamburgh. They do their own freighting in their own 
vessels — two steamboats, a sloop, flat-bottomed boat and 
canal boat. Their purchases are about all direct with the 
mills in Michigan, Maine and Canada, and in some instances 
taking the full cut of one mill for a year. 

The firm deal in everything necessary in the construction 




PRESS 
On -wJiich Daniel S. Tut kill printed the 
^^ Pioneer'" at Milton, in 1830. {PaffcS4.) 



I 



The History of Marlborough. 77 

of a house, making contracts as far as the furnishing of ma- 
terials for fifty houses to one party. The business is 
largely wholesale, although they supply the local retail 
trade. About fifty men are employed. The present office 
was erected in 1881, of fine brick, and finished in hard wood. 
There are various other structures in New Hamburgh, for 
the storing of doors, blinds, sash, mouldings, etc: A com- 
plete hardware establishmeiTt, with paints, building paper 
and mason's materials, is on the premises. 

The name of Walter Millard's Sons has become known 
all along the Hudson, and in lumber circles over the whole 
country. Their fame is deserved, as it is the result of 
energy, integrity and business sagacity. Their success has 
done much to aid the progress of this section, and will do 
more in the future. 



MILTO 



o 



As Seen Through the Columns of the "Pioneer." 

Daniel S. Tutliill published The National Pioneer in 
Milton, in 1829, and for several years subsequently. It was 
issued every Wednesday, at " $2 perannum, payable quarter- 
ly, or two dollars and fifty cents at the (::nd of the year." This 
price was lor village subscribers and those who got their 
papers through the post rider. Mail subscribers were 
charged half a dollar less, having to pay their own postage. 
Advertisements of one square or wider were inserted three 
weeks for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each subse- 
quent insertion. The })aper had agents in the sun-ounding 
j)laces, as follows-: New Paltz — Jacob J. Schoonmaker, John 
Benson, Simon Deyo, and J. C). Hasbrouck ; Plattekill — 
Samuel Morehouse ; Shawangunk — John C. Mastin, Samuel 
Johnson, Esq., and Cornelius vSchoonmaker ; Marlborough 
Village — Barnabas M. Mapes ; Lattintown — Thos. S. Warren. 
The following heavy motto appeared imder the heading of 
the Pioneer: "Let it be impressed upon your hiinds, let it 
be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the Press 
is the Palladium of all your rights." 

There were lour pages of six columns each. The first was 
devoted to miscellany ; the second to foreign and United 
States news; the third to market reports and advertising ; the 
fourth to miscellany, a bank note table, and patent medicine 
advertisements. Like all papers of its day, its best places 
were devoted to foreign news, the idea seeming to be that 
those events which transpired at the greatest distance must 
necessarily be of most interest. This policy excluded all 
local news — on the principle that people must know that 



Tlie History of Marlborongh. 7c) 

anyway — and it is to be regretted that these papers tell iis 
so little of wdiat Milton was at that time. 

In the issue ot vSe})teniber 1, 1830, occurs the loiiowing 
death notice : 

UiED. — On board the sloop Beekman, Capt. King, of Mil- 
ton, Mr. William Monger, aged 51 years. I lis death was 
occasioned by a blow he received while getting the vessel 
under weigh from New York. 

From the advertising columns of the I-*ioneer more is to 
be learned about Milton than from the reading matter. Ad- 
vertisements appear from David Brower, tailor, in Milton 
village ; Anson St. John, manufacturer of cabinet ware and 
fancy chairs, also painter ; C. S. Roe, general stc:)rekeeper, 
agent for threshing machines, real estate agent, dealer in 
rye, oats and corn, and owner of a tow boat ; Mrs. M. B. 
Ta3dor, milliner, of Marlborough ; Charles Field, hat manu- 
facturer ; Longbottom & Co,, announcing the retirement of 
James Kinworthy ; and many others of more or less interest. 
From one of these we learn that t'he proprietor of the paper, 
D. S. Tuthill, also kept a store at New Paltz landing, (High- 
land). Here he sold goods at "reduced prices," just as the 
modern merchant does. 

Daniel S. Tuthill, or Selah Tuthill, as he was commonly 
called, was a man i)f considerable ability and business en- 
terprise. He is remembered by David Sands, of Marlbo- 
rough, who, when quite a small boy, used to go into the 
Pioneer otihce after copies of the paper, and recollects see- 
ing the hand-press, operated b}^ a big lever. 

From the tiles ol the l^ioneer we learn that Cornelius Pol- 
hemus kept a public house in Marlborough in 1830. as wit- 
ness the following advertisement : 

" For Sale. The house and lot on which the subscriber 
now lives, situate in the village of Marlborough: it has been 
occupied as a public house for many 3^ears, and affords as 
great advantages tor the business as any other location in 
the vicinity. The buildings are in good repair and con- 
veniently arranged ; there is a variety of fruit trees on the 



80 Ihc History oj Marlborough. 

premises, all of which are of the best quality. The above 
property will be sold at a great barg-ain, and terms of pay- 
ment made accommodating to the purchaser. Apj^ly to 
th« subscriber on the premises. 

Cornelius Polhemus. 
Marlborough, April 7th, 1830." 

Benjamin Hulse kept a public house, at the same time as 
Polhemus, in Milton, as we find sales of property advertised 
to take place at his inn. 

Cornwall S. Roe was one of the most prominent men in 
Milton in 1830, if his advertisements in the Pioneer prove 
anything. In one copy of the paper he had no less than six- 
teen advertisements of various kinds. He kept a general 
store, where were sold dry goods, groceries, crocker3% 
hardware, lumber, tar, plaster, salt, fish, pork, etc. He 
bought grain and liaxsced at " highest cash prices," and pur- 
chased |)atent rights for agricultural machinery in order to 
have the exclusive sale in his section. He also speculated 
in land. In one place he advertises that the ladies of Ulster 
county can be supplied with Navarino Hats, either in the 
flat or made up in the neatest manner at short notice. In 
another place behold : " The Tow boat Atalanta, Capt. C. 
S. Roe, now performs her passage with all regular speed ; 
and to meet the economical views of all, passengers are taken 
at the low rate of Four Shillings, who find themselves ; — 
Six shillings and found. She arrives both ways before day- 
light. ' C. S. Roe. 

Milton, April 7, 1830." 

Where the boat ran to is not stated. 

Wc coj^y other interesting advertisements: 

Cabinet and Chair 

Manufactory. • 

y\nson St. |()hn, res])ect fully informs his Iric-nds and costo- 

meis that \^v contiiuies the above business at his new stand 

in the village of Milton, where he keeps constantly on hand 



The History of Marlborotigli. 8 1 

a general assortment of Cabinet Ware, consisting- of Tal:)les, 
Bedsteads, Stands, Secretaries, Bureaus, and Sidel:)oards, of 
every description, which he will sell at reduced prices, and 
on reasonable credit. He has also a general assortment of 
Fancy Chairs, consisting of Fancy Bamboo, and Cain Seat 
Windsor and Common Rush Bottom Chairs. Painting of 
every description, done with neatness and ai the shortest 
notice. 

Dec. 23, 1829. 

Tailoring. 
David Brower 

Respectfully announces to the public that he continues to 
carr\^ on the tailoring business, in all its various branches 
and fashions in Milton villiage, where he will be ha})py to 
attend to his customers. From his long experience, and 
cmplo3dng none but superior hands in his business, he can 
assure the public that his work will be done in style equal to 
that of an) person of his profession cither in Newburgh or 
Po'keepsie, therefore hopes to meet and receive a share of 
[)ublic patronage. 

Cutting and Basling done according to the order of his 
customers. 

Milton, Feb. loth, 1830. 

Notice. 

The Subscriber has discontinued his business at the New- 
Paltz Landing, for the purpose of closing his concerns. All 
l\n-sons indebted to him are respectfully informed that his 
Books are now arranged for settlement, and he wishes them 
to call on or before the 15th day of June next, and settle the 
same, as all notes, bonds and accounts, due and imscttled at 
that time, will be placed in the hands of proper oHicers for 
collection. Persons having claims against the Subscriber 
will please present them for liquidation. 

John Benson, 

May 26th, 1S30. . New-Paltz. 



82 The History of Marlboroitgh. 

Charles Field, 
Hat Manufacturer, 
Returns his g-ratetul acknowledgments to his friends and the 
public, for the very liberal patronage he has received from 
them, and solicits a continuance of the like favors. Being 
desirous of their further patronage, wishes to inform them 
that he has opened a Hat Store, in the City of New York, 
at No. 36.} Bowery, which will enable him to have his hats 
finished in the city, according to the latest fashions, and fur- 
nished to his costomers, at reduced prices. 

The business in future will be conducted by his son Wil- 
liam A. Field, at his old establishment, in the village of Mil- 
ton, a few doors south of Jacob P. Townsend's store. All 
persons having unsettled accounts wnth him, arc requested 
to pay immediate attention to the same. The books of 
accounts are left with William A. Field, who is fully author- 
ized to collect and settle the same. 

Milton, 4th mo. (Apr. 14), 1830. 

New Goods. 
Corn well S. Roe 
Would respectfully inform his friends, and the public, that 
he has just received at his store, in addition to his former 
stock, an extensive assortment of Dry Goods, Groceries, 
Crockery, Hard aild Hollow Ware, Etc. Etc. Also, Nails, 
Lumber, Coarse and Fine Salt, Tar, Plaster, Fish, Pork all 
ot which will be sold at reduced prices, and upon favorable 
terms. The highest i)rice in cash will be paid for all kinds 
of grain. 

Dec. 23rtl, 1829. 

Tow-Boat Atlanta. 
Caj)tain Cornwell S. Roe, 
Urged by a sense of duty by his numerious friends announces 
the uninterrupted prosecution of his Towing Business, and 
assures the i)ublic thai there is no difficult} now, even re- 
mote in ai)i)earance ; he makes this notice lor the express 
purpose to settle the agitation ol the public in relation to 
the steam boat accident, some time since, by running against 



The History of Marlborough, 83 

a sloop. Also in relation to a mercantile misfortune with 
which he is in no way connected, he regrets the folly that 
some have now, as past, circulated any idle tale, to impede 
the regularity of his business. Wanted Rye, Oats and Corn 
— at fair prices — Cash on delivery. C. S. Roe. 

iMilton, May 19th, 1830. 

Steam Boat Notice. 
The Hudson River Steam Boat Line is now plying between 
New-York, and Albany, leaving New-York at 5 o'clock, P. 
M. every day, (except Sunday) when they leave Albany at 
10 o'clock A. M. 

The Steam Boats arrives at Milton from New-York, every 
night between eleven and twelve o'clock. From Albany, 
thev arrive at Milton between three and four (/clock every 
afternoon. The boats will land and receive passengers at 
the Steam Boat Landing, Milton. 

Peter Ouimby. 

Milton, May 3rd, 1830. 

Notice. 

The copartnership existing under the hrm of James H. 
Long-bottom & Co. was desolved by mutual consent, on the 
15th day of December last. James Kinworthy retires from 
the concern. The business will be continued as usual by 
James H. Longbottom. 

Feb. 6th, 1830. 

Tailoring. 
Mr. Charles H. Taylor announces to the public that "he 
has commenced the Tailoring Business in all its various 
branches and fashions, in Marlborough Yillage, over the 
store of Barnabas AL INLapes, where he will be happy to at- 
tend on his customers. He can assure the public that his 
work will be done in hrst New Y'ork Style, equal to that 
of any person of his profession, therefore hopes to merit and 
receive a share of public patronage. Marlborough, June 
29, 1830. 



84 The History of Marlborough. 

N. B. Cutting' done in fashionable style and at sliort 
notice, and on reasonable terms ; all kinds of country pro- 
duce taken in payment. 

Millinery. 

Mrs. M. B. Taylor respectfully informs the public, that 
she has recently established the business of Millinery and 
Dress Making in Marlborough Village, nearly opposite the 
store of Mr. Fletcher, where she will be liappy to accommo- 
date customers in the above branch, upon the most moder- 
ate terms. 

Marlborough, June 29, 1830. 

List of letters remaining in the Post Office, at Milton N. 
Y., October ist, 1830. 

Robert Brown Cornwell S. Roe 

William Brown John Sheffield , 

David Brower Benjamin Sands 

Rev. Jones Hobbs Albert Stewart 

Louisa B. Meech James Stewart 

Henry l^erkins Elisyabeth Woolsey 

Ann Maria Ransonie John Worall 

A. D. Soper, P. M. 

Threshing Machine. 
The subscriber, having purchased the interest of the Pat- 
entees, for this country, in two new invented Threshing 
Machines, offers the same for sale, at Milton Landing. The 
machines will either be furnished, or rights sold to farmers 
empowering them to construct the same. Town rights will 
be disposed of to mechanics, or others upon reasonable 
terms. Ccrtihcates of the most respected farmers in the 
county, conhrming the great advantages of these machines 
are in the possession of the subscriber at his store, where 
the machines may be seen at any time. 

Cornwell S. Roe. 
Milton, Dec. 23, 1829. 

wSalt and Tar. 
Sack salt of the very best (quality and quantity, constantly 
for sale at the lowest prices. Also, Tar by the barrel. 

C. S. Roe, Milton, April 7, 1830. 




S^oci-s at Si7as Purdy'^s Alill, Marlboroug/i, in 1773. 



(Page 86.) 



OLD CUSTOMS, 



Also Old Houses, Old Roads and Old Vessels. 

The manners and methods of our i^randfathers were dif- 
ferent from our own. From various sources information 
has been gleaned as to the ways of the early residents of 
this town. 

Those who could afford it, kept slaves, and each owner 
put a mark upon his black servants, and registered the same 
with the town clerk, in order that runaway slaves might be 
the more easily traced. For instance the mark of Matthew 
Wygant was "a square notch or ha'penny on the upper side 
of the left ear." This was previously Abraham Deyo's 
mark, but in purchasing Deyo's slave or slaves, Wygant evi- 
dently adopted it to avoid re-marking the poor blacks. 

As a rule the slaves seem to have been well treated, though 
there is an instance on record of one owner having shot his 
man slave and killed him, for which he was never punished, 
the irregular times of the Revolution enabling him to escape 
prosecution. 

About 1800 the residents began to give their slaves free- 
dom. Many were allowed their liberty on the death of 
their old masters. John J. A Robert (nvned five, named 
Mongo (also called Louis Supreme), Figaro and his wife 
Althea, Charlotte and Olivette. He gave these their free- 
dom in 18 1 3. Figaro Milden, an aged C(jlored man residing 
on Western avenue, was named after the Figaro above men- 
tioned, and was himself a slave when a boy. 

October 10, 1804, Benjamin Ely abandoned a black child 
to the state, being evidently the pi'ogeny of one of his slaves, 
whom he did not care to be at the expense of bringing up, 
foreseeing that all would have to be freed in a few years' 
time. 



86 



The Histo'-y oj Maj'/borough. 



In 1773 stocks were set up at Silas Purely 's mill, where 
W. S. Clark & Son's mill now is, and there mincjr offences 
were punished in the traditional manne;. One pound was 
voted at the town meeting that year, to pay for the stocks. 

The pound was a very necessary institution during the 
latter part of the seventeenth century. Two were established 
in the town, one at Silas Purdy's, the other at Robt. Ever- 
ett's. Many settlers were in the habit of feeding their stock 
along the roads, and the animals were always getting away 
and trespassing on other people's ground. The sheep seem 
to have been particularly annoying, and a heavy fine was 
impo ed at one time on stray rams, and anyone finding one 
and not reporting to the tow^n clerk, to have the " stray " 
registered (so that the owner might be fined) was liable to a 
fine of eight shillings. The hogs came in for their share as 
nuisances, but were allowed to roam if well yoked together. 
It was customary for anyone finding a stray animal to go to 
the town clerk with a descrii)ti()n of it. the clerk entered 
this pn the town book, which was supposed to "advertise" 
the finding. When the owner turned up he had to pay the 
' clerk two shillings for advertising, and settle w ith the man 
who had found and fed his stock. 

The methods in vogue in dealing with the poor were 
somewhat odd. On one occasion, in 1782, "a poor boy, 
named Liba Herrington, was sold at vendue, to Uriah 
Mackey. for 7 i^, 8 shil., and he to have him bound by the 
poormaster until he is 21 years old, to have meat, drink, 
washing and lodging, and reading, writing and cyphering, 
and two suits of clothes when of age, one for holidays and 
one for common davs." 

In 1778, " J()sei)h Webb, the only jierson chargeable to 
the precinct, was sold to the lowest bidder for £^y, for one 
year's boarding, exclusive of clothing, on this condition— if 
any person in the i)recinct of Newburgh will keep him 
for a smaller sum they are to have him." He was sold to. 
John Scott. There must have been a cheerful prospect 
before a poor })auper who was disposed of in this fashion ! 

In 1789 there was a pauper known as old Relyea, to whom 



TJic History of Marlboroni^h. 87 

the town had been o^ivin^^ aid, while his sons were really able 
to support him. The fact came up at the town meetiniJ^ 
Sept. 5, 1789, and it was "Voted, that the poormaster im- 
mediately prosecute the children of old Reljea foi- his main- 
tenance by the town." Evidently the poormaster did not 
get anj'thing out of the sons, for the same thing was voted 
the next year, accompanied by wrathy resolutions. 

During the Revolution it was the custom for men to take 
the oath of allegiance to the Continental government, and 
have the clerk enter the same on the town records. Man}^ 
men who had Tor}- sympathies, when they found themselves 
becoming the objects of scorn and [)ersecution, made the 
best of it, and swore in with the new government. 



Old Houses. 

The residence of Samuel Harris, on North Main street, 
was built by Major DuBois about 1770, jjerhaps sooner. It 
was the best house in town. 

The Exchange hotel, Samuel 11. Knilfin, proprietor, issuj)- 
posed to be nearly if not, quite as old as the DuBois man- 
sion. 

James Carpenter's residence lias withstood the storms of 
nearly a century. 

The house adjoining, where J. E. Woolsey lives, is nearly 
as old. 

The old stone house where Isaac Hall lives, formerly 
occupied by J. J. A. Robart, dates back to the Revolution. 

The small house at the corner of Main and DuBois streets, 
property of Dr. E. P. Baile}^ was there over sevent}' 3^ears 
ago, and is supposed to have been built during the last cen- 
tury. 

The old building adjoining J. C. Merritt's store was for- 
merly used as a weave shop by Spence & McElrath. Robei t 
Moses worked in it, and it stood further to the east. 

C. E. Re3mold's shop on Main street was originally built 



88 Tlic History of Marlborough. 

for John B. Wygant, for a wagfin shop, also shoe and paint 
shop. Barnabas Mapes leased it at one time. 

The Thomas Marvin house, nearly two miles north of the 
village, on Main street, was built by Eli S. Woolsey's grand- 
father, before the Revolution. 

The Milden house, on Western avenue, is supposed to be 
over one hundred years old. 

In Milton the old houses are — the red house at the head 
of Sears' lane, where the first town meeting was held in 
March, 1789. The Hallocks lived there, when they arrived 
in Milton in 1760, previous to building the old homestead. 

The Hallock homestead, now occupied by Mrs. Phebe 
Hallock, was built about 1762. 

The old house occupied by Mrs. Conklin, north of the 
Presbyterian church, was built by Samuel Hallock, some 
time in the sixties. It was afterwards bought by Benjamin 
Sands, and was fired at during the war of the Revolution, 
by Vaughan's expedition. Uavid Sands, jr., picked up an 
iron cannon ball near the old house some years ago. 

The Anning Smith house was built in 1770, and also got a 
dose from the British gun boats in 1777. 

The Hepworth house, half way between Milton and Marl- 
borough, was built shortly after the Revolution, and was 
kept as a hotel by William Holmes. 

The Bingham house on Bingham street was built in 1795. 

In 1820 Adam Cropsey's house stood just south of Dr. A. 
H. Palmer's present residence. South of where the brick 
house now is were two little houses, occupied by two old 
ladies, Mrs. tiavens and Mrs. Plumstead. Henry Cropsey 
lived about where the brick house now stands. Where 
Henr}' Carpenter lives a Miss Wilson then resided. At this 
same date a little house with a rear basement was next to 
McMuUen's hotel on the south. Van Burcn's grocery store 
came next. 

Chas. E. Reynold's carriage shop was formerly a part of 
the hotel building. Barnabas Mai)es leased part of the hotel 
grounds, and built a j)ortion ol the [)resent structure. 



TJic History of Marlborough. 89 

Old Roads. 

The old post road, runninj^ through the town, at a distance 
of about half to three-quarters of a mile from the river, is 
undoubtedly the oldest road in the town. It probably dates 
back one hundred and fifty years. There are several dwell- 
ings on this road which are more than one hundred 3'ears 
old, and it formed the natural route for land travelers be- 
tween New York and Albany. 

The back road from Milton was built b}- Capt. Anning 
Smith some time near the Revolution. lie laid it out 
entirely through his own land. 

The road from Lattintown to Newburgh is also an old 
road, and reasonably straight, a virtue which has been 
shamefully avoided in laying out the town. 

The Farmers' turnpike was ordered built by the town in 
1790, to run from Lattintown to the river. Westward it 
ran to Wallkill, and afterward to Modena. 

Hampton turnpike was laid out about 80 years ago. It 
ran in a straight line from Hampton to Plattekill. The 
direction of the road through Marlborough was close to the 
southern boundary of the town, crossing the county line 
just south of Chas. G. Velie's residence. The road was 
built so straight over hills and down valleys that it was 
nothing but steep grades. Teamsters were not long in find- 
ing out that it was more easy for their horses to draw a load 
around than over these hills. As a consequence the turn- 
pike was little used. After a time Thomas Fyfe, who owned 
the place now belonging to Alex. Young, shut off an unused 
portion of the " pike," having given other land for the public 
use. John C. Storms later shut off still more of it, and 
Alexander and \Vm. Young closed off other portions on 
their property, and to-day there is not much left of the 
Hampton turnpike. 

The old Huckelberry turnpike is now known as Bingham 
street. About 18 years ago it was put thrcnigh in its present 
shape, by the efforts of Dr. E. E. Taylor. 

The following were the road districts in 1772 : 



90 Tlic History of Marlborough. 

1 -Caleb Merritt's line, on the road that comes from Wol- 
vert Acker's, to Louis DiiBois' north line. 

2- At DuBois' north line, to run to Lattintown road. 

3-From the last mentioned to the Paltz line. 

4-From Elijah Lewis' dock to John Caverly's line. 

5-T0 run from the last mentioned to Jo. Micks' westward, 
and South to Capt. Gale's North line. 

6 From the last mentioned southward to the river road. 

/-To begin at the new bridge by Silas Purd^^'s mill to run 
southward to Dr. Perkins' South line. 

8-To begin at the last mentioned, to run to Newburgh. 

9-T0 begin at the Jew's house, to* run westward to J. 
Russell's. 

lO-To begin below Samuel Townsend's, to run West out 
of the precinct. 

ii-To begin at Deyo's bridge, to run to Nathaniel Quim- 
by's house. 

12 — From Silas Purdy's mill northward to Lattintown 
road . 

1 3- From Mr. Brush's log house to Jonathan Hicks'. 

14-From the last mentioned to the pine swamp. 

15-Still westward to the precinct line. 

i6-From the Plattckill to Capt. Terpanney's. 

17-Still southward to Newburgh line. 

18-T0 begin on the road from Lattintown, to run on the 
Everitt line southward to Newburgh. 

19-From John DufHeld's to the sixth district west. 

20-From the East district to the Newburgh road at Mr. 
Megmin's. 

2i-From the Lattintown road to Ihe I'altz line. 



Oi,i) Vessels. 

Shortly before the Revolutionar}- War there was a dock 
and storehouse at Smith's pond, from which Caj)t. Anning 
Smith ran a vessel to New York twice a week. Another 



TJie History of Marlboroiigli. 91 

dock was built after the war, just below the present clock, 
and Capt. Hall ran a slooj) from that point. A little further 
to the South durino- Jefferson's administration, about 1804, a 
dock was built from which Thomas Powell, of Newburgh, 
ran a vessel to New York. He also kept a store there, and 
it was from his wife that the fast and famous steamer Mary 
Powell derived her name. 

The orii^inal landings for vessels at Marlborough were in 
Jew's creek, one being at the jimction with what is now 
called Buckley's creek and theotherabout halfway between 
that i)()int and the Ravine Falls. A road used to run from 
these landings to the main road, at a point just south of the 
cemetery. 

The sloop Stranger was run from DuBois' dock in 1822 
or 1823, and the Thomas Hoyt was run by Moab Carpenter 
at about the same time. These vessels proved too small for 
the trade, and about 1825 Mowbray Carpenter and Josiah 
Lockwood sailed two sloops between Marlborough and New 
York, named the Victory and Robert Minturn. They car- 
ried tfour, hay, butter, wood, live stock and farmers' produce 
of various kinds, the captains selling the cargoes, for want 
of modern commission men. Mr. E. A. Merritt used to run 
in the Victory in 1833 and 1834. Also James Carpenter. 

In 1836 a stock company placed the steamboat Fannie on 
the Marlborough route, and ran to New York twice a 
week. Jacob H. Tremper (now widely known as the captain 
of the steamer Baldwin) commanded this early steam craft, 
which was run two years, and then sold because the business 
did not pay. 

The steamer Splendid, owned by Millard cS: Mills, ac- 
commodated the town's traffic about 1845. A barge from 
Milton, the Lexington, Capt. Roe, also stopped here regularly, 
and a boat run by horse power, from New Hamburgh, con- 
nected with it at Marlbc^rough. 

The propeller Wyoming was put on the line in 1857, and 
was run by J. P. Millard and H. H. Holden from Millard's 
dock. Samuel Millard afterwards purchased Holden's 
interest. The Wyoming did a prosperous business for sev- 



92 The History of Marlborough. 

eral years, carrying as much as 300 bags of liour a week 
during the busy season. 

N. Woolsey Wright at one time ran a sloop to Haver- 
straw, largely for convenience in shipping Hour from his 
own mill. A sloop styled the Abe Jones, was also used in 
the coal trade. 

With the growth of the fruit industry, a daily line of boats 
became necessary, and the Marlborough vessels disappeared, 
the trade being carried on by the steamers of the Pough- 
keepsie Transjxjrtation Co. and Cornell Steamboat Co. 




RAVINE FALLS, MARLBOROUGH, AS THEY APPEARED IN 1800. 

(Page 93.) 



REMINISCENCES. 



The Ravine Falls. 

The Marlborough of to-day is a very different-appearing 
place from the Marlborough which is described in other 
pages. It is emphatically a live town, and during the sum- 
mer season receives a large increase of vigor and business 
from the fruit industry and the visits of pleasure seekers. 
The tired occupants of the city, or ihe wealthy who travel 
for pleasure, come here in increasing numbers every year. 
The attractions are lovely scenery, a m derate temperature 
in " dog days," and fruit not surpassed in flavor by any 
grown in any portion of the world. 

Perhaps the most interesting natural curiosity within the 
town limits is the fall of Old Man's Kill or creek into the 
Sucker Hole, a tumble of about 235 feet. The body of water 
running over is not large, but the height is so great, and the 
fall so little broken as to constitute a waterfall to see which 
is worth many miles to travel. 

The Sucker Hole either derives its name from the sucking 
of the water in and out or because sucker fish are caught 
there. Every high tide the Hudson sends its waters into 
the creek almost to the foot of the falls. The precipitous 
sides of the hole are densely clothed with verdure, preventing 
a good view of the falls from the railroad or the river, but a 
trip down the rocks well repays the labor of the returning 
climb. The prospect obtained from the top of the precipice, 
from the rear of residences on Main street, may be com- 
jiared to an infantile Yosemite. The picture is framed on 
either hand by walls of rock half hidden among dark cedars 
and a variety of foliage. In the depths of the foreground 
Jew's creek winds its way to a cove, which is crossed by the 



94 The Ilnto-y of Marlborough. 

West Shore R. R. tracks. Beyond is the blue Hudson, with 
the shores of New Hamburgh, and the entrance to a tunnel 
in the distance. 

The precipice on the west side of the Sucker Hole has 
been the cause of many accidents, though it is not known 
that any lives were lost there. About seventy years ago a 
carpenter shop stood where the stables of McMullen's hotel 
now are located. During a lively little hurricane it blew 
over into the chasm, and the fragments were scattered far 
and wide.' Among other things a saw was blown to the 
point where Buckley's creek connects with the Old Man's 
Kill,' a distance of almost half a mile from where the shop 
stood originally. 

A little over thirty years ago a boy named Polhamus fell 
over the precipice while returning from Sunday school. He 
remained there all night, although searchers were out with 
lanterns looking for him. He was found in the morning, 
not fatally injured, nor was he crippled in consequence. 

Some years since a young man named Birdsall, a relative 
of the late Hosea Birdsall, slipped over while cutting slip- 
pery-elm bark, but was not seriously hurt. 

Later, a reckless young fellow, whose name is lost to his- 
tory, went down on a bet after a set of false teeth. He 
climbed down most ot the way, and jumped the rest, but 
failed to break his neck. 

In 1885 Willie Burke, son of Edward Burke, about six 
years old at the time, fell over while in pursuit ot a ball. 
He went from the top clear to the bottom, and broke a 
thumb, but was not injured otherwise, beyond a few scratches. 
In 1886 a tramp, who was somewhat the worse for liquor, 
rolled over, but stopped on a ledge of rock about seventy 
feet from the top. He was badly cut about the head, but 
tramped out of town the next day, as though uninjured. 

Probably others have fallen over this dangerous precipice, 
but it is not likely that an^^ one could have been killed here, 
and no record preserved of the accident. It is astonishing 
to think that five persons could fall a distance of from seventy 
to two hundred and thirty-five feet, and none of them be 



TJie History of Marlborough. 95 

killed, but their immunity is generally ascribed to the mass 
of soft rubbish which has accumulated at the foot of the 
declivity. This has operated as a spring mattress to break 
the fall of those who took the terrible tumble. 



Facts and Incidents. 
Some fifty years ago a man named Pell lived on the Isaac 
Hall place, on Main street, in a tenant house. His wife died, 
and he went crazy with grief. He was not confined, and 
one night the poor man dug up his wife's body, and was 
found attempting to feed her. 

Previous to 1830 or '35 large brick yards were located 
back of the present Knickerbocker Company's ice house. 
There was another where J. W. Keveny now owns, about a 
mile north, which was owned by Young (S: Moore. Nathaniel 
Adams built the first brick yard in Marlborough about 1825, 
but the clay all ran out inside of ten years. 

Singularly enough, Marlborough supplied Newburgh with 
coal one winter twenty or thirty years ago, before the rail- 
roads were through. The supply in that city gave out, and 
the Millards being well stocked, sent coal down in carts all 
winter. 

The sand bank to the north of Landing street used to come 
all the way to the dock store. To William C. Young be- 
longs the credit of digging away a large part of it. 

Seventy-five years ago wolves went plenty in the Marl- 
borough mountain, and committed frequent depredations. 

Lewis UuBois owned a fulling mill, when the i8th cen- 
tury was in the small figures, which he seems to had some 
difficulty in keeping employed, for over date of August 6, 
1810, he advertised in the Newburgh " Political Index" the 
followins: : 



96 The History of Marlborough. 

" A Clothier Wanted, at the mill of the subscriber ; one 
who can come well recommended, either. on shares or other- 
wise. The stand is one of the best in the countr}^ it being 
ten miles distant from any other Fulling Mill. The mill is 
new and calculated for carding also. 

Lewis DuBois." 

The clothier secured by this advertisement could not have 
been satisfactory to DuBois, for on February 4, 181 1, ap- 
peared the following notice : 

" Dissolution : the public are informed that the partner- 
ship of Lewis DuBois and Nathan Tupper, in the Clothier's 
business, was dissolved on the first of December last. 

Lewis DuBois." 

Sept. 15, 1 81 7, the mill was again advertised to let, for a 
term of years. 

Letters tor Marlborough went to the Newburgh post office 
previous to 1809, ^"^ were advertised if not called for. 
Under date of July i, 1807, were advertised letters for Alex- 
ander Cropsey, Josiah Merritt and Charles Millard, all well 
known residents. Either they were negligent about getting 
their mail, or these were letters with heavy postage due on 
them, which they did not care to redeem. 

A good many farms were offered for sale during the war 
(jf 18 1 2 or previous. Among others Mary Quimby adver- 
tised a larm of 150 acres, about a mile West of the Hudson, 
John Van Wie wanted to sell a farm of 137 acres, and it is 
probable that he sold as it is the only mention of his name in 
any record concerning Marlborough. David Merritt adver- 
tised his Lattintown farm, and Charles Millard tried to sell 
his mill property. 

In 1818 post coaches ran through Marlborough three times 
a week, the line being between Albany and New York. 

Jew's creek was navigable up to within about fifty years. 
In 1812 several vessels were run up in the creek for shelter 



TJic History of Marlborough. 97 

from British gunboats, which they feared were in pursuit. 
John and Andrew Cropsey owned the creek about that 
time (possibly a few years later) and ran sloops up as far as 
Buckley's point. 

It. is a curious fact that Marlborough was not settled as 
soon as surrounding towns because the soil was supposed to 
be so poor. The New Paltz patentees came here before loca- 
ing at the Paltz, and looked over the ground, deciding that 
it was too rock}-. The first white settlers of Dutchess county 
also paid a visit to Marlborough on a like errand, and voted 
that the land was of little or no value. Now, that our soil 
has been proven the most valuable fruit land oi the fertile 
Hudson valley, this estimate of our ancestors seems, amusing. 
The unpromising rocks and Ltones retain the moisture so 
necessary and valuable to the production of fine fruits. 



Store.s and Storekeepers in Marlborough. 

John Conger kept a store, where John Badner is now lo- 
cated, about 1810 or 1815. He afterwards removed it to the 
dock. 

John J. A. Robart kept a store in a shed-like structure 
near where Isaac Hall lives, on Main street, about 18 10. 
This building was afterwards used as a school house, and 
later moved to the site of Carpenter's present store, where it 
was used by a hatter. All the oxen in the vicinity were re- 
quired to move the building. The hat shop was run b)' 
Reuben Drake, father of Wm. Drake, of New Hamburgh. 

John DeSilvia had a store on Main street in 1816. 

Joseph Lockwood kept a grocery on the dock about 1819 
or '20. After that Joseph Carpenter kept store there, sub- 
sequently removing to Cornwall. 

Jasper Van Buren kept a store where Mrs. Hinsdale's 
house stands on Main street, in 1821. 

James Whitmore had the store, vacated by John Cruger, 
for some vears. He was a brother-in-law of Gabriel Merritt. 



98 The History of Marlborotigh. 

Robert Spence and VVm. McElrath kept a store where J, 
C. Merritt is for a number of 3'ears. They also ran a woolen 
mill in the building now used by Woolsey Wright as a grist 
mill, employing fifteen or twenty hands. They came here 
young men and lived together, in the same house where 
Figaro Milden now lives, until Spence got married. . The 
woolen mill was afterwards run by a man named Stratton, 
and later by one Longbotham. Joseph Hepworth, grand- 
father of J. A. Hepworth, also ran the mill for a time. 

Wm. McElrath succeeded Spence & McElrath, and built 
the store now occupied by J. C. Merritt, about forty five 
years ago. 

Miles J. Fletcher kept a store at the location of S. Cor- 
win's Sons fifty years ago. 

Mowbray Carpenter was also one of the earl}^ store- 
keepers. 

John Polhemus kept store here about 1830. 

Lewis W. Young had a store at the dock for a number of 
years. 



Recollections about Milton. 

The South line of the Bond ])atent remains as a landmark 
to the present day, never having been crossed by subsequent 
sales and divisions of property. An old rock near the resi- 
dence of C. wS. Northrip is yet pointed out in the village, 
which was cut to mark this boimdary. 

It may be of interest to note that the price of land in Mil- 
ton changed but little between 1753 and 1775. The price 
was but little over one pound per acre. Some of these acres 
are now very valuable. Every timber tree twenty-four 
inches and over in diameter, twelve inches from the ground, 
or that attained that size while the individual possessed the 
land, was reserved for use in the British navy for masts. 
Rights in any mines of gold or silver that might be discov- 
ered were reserved by the crown. 



The History of Marlborough. 99 

In 1862 a young ladies' seminary, boardincr and day school, 
was carried on in Milton by Rev. E. W. Clark, below the 
Methodist church, on Church street. The town proved to 
be too small to supp(jrt such an institution. 

Rev. P. C. Oakley formerly set tvpe beside one of the 
Harper brothers, in New York city. 

The Milton Savings Bank was organized June i, 1871. 
Leonard S. Carpenter, president; Jesse Lyons, ist vice- 
president: William H. Gcdney, 2d vice-president; Ethan 
Parrott, secretary. No business was ever transacted by the 
organization. 

About seventy years ago a ferry known as Lattimer's was 
run across the Hudson at Milton, from the old stone house. 
It is stated that when Gen. Washington had his headquar- 
ters at Newburgh, gold was sent to him from Boston to pay 
off the troops, and was brought across the river at this ferry. 

The first meeting house in Milton was a store, located on 
the corner near the old Hallock homestead. Here the 
Friends worshipped prior to 1806. 

A number of vears ago Smith Mackey had a hay press 
where H. H. Bell tS: Son's plush factory now stands. He 
did a thriving business. 

Milton has always been favored by steamboats as a land- 
ing, though only a village, but in the days when steamboat 
racing was fashionable, before the people learned that it was 
dangerous, captains often refused to stop, and row boats 
were sent out, and packages would be tossed back and forth 
in quick fashion. 

C. M. Woolsey has in his office the commission of his an- 
cestor, Wm. Woolsey, as ensign, dated July 4, 1778, and 
bearing the autograph of George Clinton, the first colonial 
governor of New York state. 

Corrrwall S. Roe was a prominent man in Milton for a 
number of years. He died out West only a few years since. 
His parentage was unknown, as he was picked up from the 
water at Cornwall when a babe, his father and mother being 
drowned by the capsizing of a boat. The little boy was 
bundled up in a blanket and floated. 



100 The History of Marlborough. 

Ship carpentering was carried on by Philip Caverly on 
Dog street, Milton, at an early date. He married a widow 
by the name of McElrath, and bought the farm where Luther 
Caverly now lives. He used to buy wood of Wilhelmus 
DuBois, and got some big bargains, because Wilhelmus' 
land was entailed, and he would not bother to measure the 
wood, saying that as it was entailed he didn't care who got it. 



Lattintovvn Fifty Years Ago. 

At the beginning of the present century Lattintown vil- 
lage was the principal centre of the town. More business 
was transacted than in Milton or Marlbor(jugh village. The 
inhabitants had not yet learned that the Hudson river was 
the great backbone of the state, and that live towns and cities 
must be located close to its banks. 

In those days there were in Lattintown two hotels and a 
still. Mechanism of all kinds was carried on, there was a 
school ; men came there to look for work ; law suits were car- 
ried on ; there was horse racing, and sometimes pugilistic 
encounters and the like. 

The village derived its name from a man called Lattin (or 
Lattinj.) whose origin and history has been almost forgotten. 
Jacob and John Lattin lived here and afterwards moved to 
Esopus. A man of the same name visited Marlborough nine 
years ago, in the endeavor to trace his ancestry, but learned 
very little. It is probable that much might have been dis 

covered if the burying ground near Odell's had been 

undisturbed, but as many of the stones had been carried 
away, and used for dairy shelves and other useful purposes, 
the work of the historian was greatly hindered. 

A Scotchman named McElrath was one of the earliest 
storekeei)ers. He kept all kinds of groceries and liquor, 
and manied a grass widow. 

Two farmers, one oi whom was named Chas. Brown, set 
up a still and made cider. They did a thriving business. 



The History of Marlborough. loi 

A great deal of the land then was set out in apple trees as 
soon as it was cleared. The cider machine was an r;d(l 
affair, consisting of a circle, with two large wheels or crush- 
ers, on which the boys used to ride, as f)n a merry-go-round. 
The cider was afterwards distilled into whiskey. 

In 1826 a good hotel was built, and the landlord kept a 
blacksmith shop, with two journeymen and an apprentice. 
The local Methodist minister was also a shoemaker and made 
to order. There was also in the place a harness ma';er, hat- 
ter, tailor, wagon maker, undertaker, tanner ?vi\ other 
tradesmen. 

Fourth of July was a big day at Lattintowr, during its 
glory, and a revolutionary cannon was freel) used. There 
are still in the village many gates swung by a ball and 
chain, and it is tradition that the balls belonged to this old 
cannon. 

The Lattintown Baptist Church was established in 1807, 
and the village knew its highest prosperity between that 
date^and 1825. 

Town meetings were held in Lattintown at the house of 
David Merrit, tor many years. - These gatherings were 
quite informal, being more of the character ot a meeting of 
farmers to talk over their mutual interests, than a properly 
organized legislative body. • 

The following description of David Merritt's property is 
taken from an advertisement in the "Political Index," pub- 
lished in Newburgh in 1809: 

"For Sale, a farm situate in the village of Lattintown, 
town of Marlborough, and county of (Tlstcr, containing 
about 180 acres of land. Said farm is under the best im- 
provement, excepting 80 acres of excellent wood land. 
There is on the same a dwelling house neatly fmished, con- 
taining four rooms and a kitchen on the first floor, and one 
above 20 feet square. Also about 300 bearing apple trees, a 
cider mill and house, and two barns, one 30x43, the other 
30x40, and other outhouses. The situation is excellent for 
a public house, being the place where town meetings and 



102 The History of Marlboroiigli. 

the elections have hitherto been held. For further par- 
ticulars en(iiiire oi the subscriber on the j)remises. 

David Mekritt. 
December i<S, 1809." 

Among the residents of Lattintovvn during the '20s and 
'30s were Thomas Wygant, g'rand father of Asbury Wygant ; 

John Hait, who owned the farm where Odell now 

lives; John and Lattin Caverly ; Chas. Brown, who owned 
40Q acres where Edward DuBois now resides ; James Quim- 
by, grandfather of Samuel Quimby. The Wygant brothers 
were well-to-do, and owned a good deal of land. Buchanan 
Lounsbury owned where John Foyer is located. The Pur- 
dys owned several hundred acres. 

John Bailey, grandfather of Dr. Elisha Bailey, was a resi- 
dent, and Dr. Bailey taught school in Lattintovvn when a 
very young man. 

VVm. Lymasen settled half a mile above Lattintown about 
the time (jf the I'vcvolution. He died in iSoi. Hischi.drcn, 
Joseph, Peter, John and William all settled in the vicinitv. 
Moses Lymasen, son of Peter, is now living in Poughkeep- 
sie. He fought in the late civil war. The rest of the family 
are scattered. 

Rebecca Drake, a widow, kept store in the village over 
fifty years ago, and Thos. Warren kept the hotel. Charles 
Craft was undertaker at the same period. Wm. Lymasen 
was a tailor, and used to go about in a wagon, and work at 
people's houses. 

Squire Waterous was Justice of the Peace for many years. 
He was born in 1741, and administered the law for our 
grandfathers. He had many petty trials. fY-rhaps the 
most important one was of the members of a family named 
Cole, living half a mile above the village. On the occasion 
in question a hunting dog ran into a hole and brought out 
a roll of cloth instead of a rabbit. This was identihed as 
having been stolen from Buckley's cloth mill, and Martin 
Cole was proved guilty of the theft, and served two years in 
Sing Sin^ 



TIlc History of Marlhotough. iOj 

A family named Rhodes was a great trouble to the neigh- 
borhood. There were seven or eight brothers o[ them, who 
were thieves. For the credit of the present generation let 
it be said that they left no descendants in the town of Marl- 
borough. Five of these brothers were arrested at one time 
for breaking and entering a church. All were sent to the 
State prison in consequence, for periods varying from five 
to ten years. John Rhodes was a horse thief and got a 
fourteen years' sentence the last time he was jailed. There 
was a younger brother' of this family named Lewis, who 
married a lady named Bennett, who was said to be the only 
decent one of the lot, but he also ended up in State prison. 

Benjamin Harcourt was Justice of the Peace at the time 
of the troubles with the Rhodes family. He also served 
two terms as Sheriff. 

The liquor taverns were much thicker then than now. 
Everybody drank whiskey, including the ministers. The 
residents became frightened because there were so niany 
drunkards, about 55 years ago, and circulated a pledge, by 
which the signers agreed to abstain from whiskey, which 
was the principal drink. In 1834 a temperance institution 
was organized ih every district in the town. It seems to 
have been necessary, as the taverns were simply liquor 
shops, having no accommodations. They were very com- 
mon, and almost everybody carried a bottle as well. 

There was a good deal of dancing in Lattintown, and hops 
at the hotel were frequent. 

As navigation in the Hudson grew with the establishment 
of steamboats, the river villages of Milton and Marlborough 
began to draw from the life and activity of Lattintown, 
which has suffered a gradual decadence, until to-day there 
is little more than a country cross road left of what was 
once a thriving village. There is a church, a blacksmith 
shop, a school house, and a small store. The dw;ellings 
thicken at the centre, but all the trade comes to Marl- 
borough and Milton. 



i04 ^f^(^ History of Marlborough. 

The Medical Profession. 

The first physician to locate in Marlborough, of whom 
there is an}^ record, was Dr. Abijah Perkins. He practiced 
here before the Revolution, and died in 1776. Dr. Cornelius 
Roosa practiced here previous to 18 14, when he died. Dr. 
David Lynch died here in 1822. A Dr. Fowler prescribed 
here about the same time. Dr. Marcus Dougherty and Dr. 
Nathaniel Deyo ministered to the sick about 1830 or later. 
Dr. James S. Knapp was in practice here for many years, 
and died in 1879. Dr. S. E. Hasbrouck succeeded him. 
Then Dr. J. N. Miller settled here for four years, removing 
to Highland. Drs. A. H. Palmer and David Mosher are the 
present resident physicians in the village. 

Dr. Benjamin Ely practiced in the town about 18 10 and 
'15, and owned a farm of 85 acres a mile and a quarter from 
Lewis DuBois' landing. 

Dr. William Gedney settled in Milton in 18 17, and had a 
large practice from that time until his demise in 1849. He 
was Supervisor in 1825. His son, Dr. William H. Gedney, 
entered tlie profession in 1846, succeeding to his father's prac- 
tice. He has now retired. Dr. Theodore Quick and Dr. 
Wm. B. Pierson each practiced several years at Milton. Dr. 
Edward W. Carhart is now the only practicing physician in 
the village. 



CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES. 



The Presbyterian Church of Marlborough. 

In 1763 the f jllowing subscription was raised to found the 
Presbyterian church : 

"We, the subscribers, lor an encouragement towards 
building a meeting-house for the worship of God, near the 
Old Man's Creek, in Ulster County, to be founded in the 
Presbyterian foundation and government of the Kirk of 
Scotland, do promise for ourselves, heirs, and assigns, to pay 
on demand the following sums annexed to our names to 
those that are trustees of said building, providing that Lewis 
DuBois does give two acres of land to remain for that use 
forever. 

Lewis DuBois, .... 

btophen Case, ..... 

John Woolsey, .... 

David Brewster, . . 

Joseph Presley, .... 

Henry Case, Jr., .... 

Benjamin Woolsey, 

Lewis Adams, . . 

Thos. Quick, .... 

Thos. Woolsey, 

Matthew Presler, 

John Jackson, .... 

John Harris, ..... 

Micajah Lewis, 

Phineas Lattin, ..... 

James Merritt, .... 

Michael Wygant, . . . , 



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TJlc History of Marlborough. 



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Gcoi^ge Stanton, 
Joseph Cain, . 
Urian Mackey, . 
Lattery Carpenter, 
John Carnion, 
Daniel Thurston, . 
Zachariah Thurston, . 
William Mitchell, . 
Silas Travis, 
Richard Wodey, . 
Benjamin Carpenter, 
Thomas Knowton. 
Eliphalet Piatt, 
Elijah Lewis, 
James Ouimby, 
Nehemiah Fowler, 
Alexander Culden, . 
Jonathan Hasbrouck, . 

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A second subscription, amounting- to £17, s. I, w\as raised 
Feb. 25, 1765, to finish the meeting house. 

From a centennial discourse by Rev. S. H. Jagger, in 
1867, the lollowing is compiled: 

On the fifth day of April, 1764, Lewis DuBois conveyed a 
tract of land to John Woolsey and Stephen Case, as Trus- 
tees of this Society. But the Societ)' having come to the 
conclusion that an acre and a half was sufficient lor their use, 
the lot was reduced to that size. The motives of tlie donor 
are thus expressed in the deed of conveyance : " For that 
paternal love he hath for and towards the propagation of 
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the Articles of the 
Kirk of Scotland, in the Presbj'terian faith." The uses to 
which the land was set apart are thus defined : " To build a 
meeting house on, and for a burying )'ard, for the use, 



TJic History of Marlborough. 107 

benefit and advantage of the said Marlborough Society, 
and their heirs forever." The conditions on which the 
Society were to h(jld the grant of land are thus expressed : 
" Provided always, and it is upon this consideration, that if 
the said Marlborough Society. do from time to time, and at all 
times forever hereafter, call, choose, appoint, and settle a 
minister of the Gospel whose principles shall be to main- 
tain, and fulfill, and keep the Articles of the Kirk of Scot- 
land, agreeable to their Confession of Faith." If they 
should settle any other minister, the deed was to be void, 
and the land was to revert to its former owner or his heirs. 
On this land a small building, about thirty-five by twenty- 
five feet, was erected, and was so far completed the ensuing 
summer, as to be occupied for Divine worship. The nature 
of the buildins: may be learned when it is stated that its 
whole cost was not more than one hundied and seventeen 
j)ounds. The first sermon delivered in it, on the 26th day 
of August, 1764, was by the Rev. Charles Jeffrey Smith, of 
Long Island, a graduate ot Yale College, who had studied 
Theology with Dr. Whelock of New Lebanon, the celebrated 
teacher of the Indians. After laboring awhile with the In- 
dians, Mr. Smith was induced to go to Virginia for the 
instructi(jn of the slaves. Returning to Long Island to set- 
tle his affairci, he went out one morning with a fowling piece 
and was found dead — by some supposed to have been mur- 
dered, by others to have shot himself accidentally. He was 
but just ordained when he preached here, and died just six 
years afterwards. He was a young man of much wealth and 
eminent for gifts and graces, and died greatly lamented. 

The first burial in the church-yard was on the 3d day of 
March, 1764. The 13th day of December of the next year, 
the congregation chose a committee of five to procure a 
clergyman, and to provide the means for hi*; support for one 
year. They secured, accordingly, the service of the Rev. 
Abner Brush, a member of the Presbytery of New York. 
He remained with them and was virtually their pastor lor 
several years. On the 24th day of September, 1773, the 
people secured the services of the Rev. John Mecallah, who 



io8 Tlie History of Marlborough. 

\vas to preach one-half the time at Marlborough and the other 
half towards Newburgh. 

During all this time there was no Ecclesiastical organiza- 
tion in this Society, and the ordinance of the Lord's Supper 
had never been administered among them. On the 23d day 
of April, 1775, for the first time, this Sacrament was admin- 
istered, by the Rev. Nathan Kerr, to Doctor Abijah Perkins, 
John Woolsey, John Polhemus, John Stratton, Mrs. John 
Stratton and Mrs. Jehiel Clark. We have no evidence that 
anv Ruling Elders were set apart at this time, or that the 
ordinance of "the Supper was again administered for many 
years. This Mi". Kerr was the pastor of the Church at 
Goshen, whei*e he died in 1804, after a long pastorate ol 
thirty-eight years. The Sacrament of Baptism had already 
been administered t,o thirty infants. And we learn how 
much importance they attached to the ordinance when we 
know that is was made the duty of their Clerk to ascertain 
and record, in connection with every burial, whether the 
deceased had been baptized or not. When they were with- 
out a stated preacher, as was often the case during the ten 
years and more of which we have been speaking, they em- 
braced the earliest opportunity to have their children bap- 
tized by the neighboring clergymen, who were called in to 
supply their pulpit. We find in this way the Rev. Francis 
Peppard, of New Windsor, and the Rev, Wheeler Case, of 
Pleasant Valley, Duchess County, preaching and baptizing 
children among them. The celebrated Indian preacher, 
Samson Occom, spent some little time here, in the beginning 
of the year 1775, and on 22d day of January, baptized Lewis> 
the son of Lieutenant DuBois, among others.* 

The next ten years embrace the stormy days of the Revolu- 
tion ; and Marlborough felt their effects beyond many other 
places, as it was the refuge of an unusual number of Whigs. 

* Samson Cecum was one of the Mohcgan tribe, who had been educated by Dr. 
Whelock at Lebanon, Ct. Shortly after being ordained to the Ministry, he was sent 
out to England, to raise funds for the education of the Indians. Here he attracted 
much attenlion, and drew large audiences to hear him, as the first Indian jireacher 
who had ever visited England. He was successful in his mission, raising aliout 
$40,000. And this eventually laid the foundation for the establishment of Dartmouth 
College. He fmished his days as a missionary to the Oneidas. 



The History of Marlborough. 109 

During all this time, this Congregation was without any 
stated niinistr}". depending on the services of such clergy- 
men in the neighborhood as they could obtain, h)r one or 
more Sabbaths at a time. Among these were the Rev. John 
Close, the learned and elocjuent pastor ol the Chiirches of 
New Windsor and Bethlehem, the Rev. John Mafiht, pastor 
of th(^ Church (jf G(Jodwill, and the Rev. Andrew King, the 
witty but dignified, the talented, bnt not learned, the ea: r.c:;t, 
laithful and useful pastor of the Wallkill Congregatic ::;, h)r 
thirty years. The Rev. Robert Annan, of the Associr.te Re- 
formed Church, also preached here," a man of talents, ol 
ardent temperament, and of decided patriotism ; of v/hom one 
of his hearers was wont to say : " K capital j^reacher and a 
capital Whig." The Rev. Stephen Gostshins, of the Re- 
formed Dutch Church of New Paltz and New Hurley, sup 
plied the pulpit. They had also supplies from the other 
side of the river. The Rev. Samuel Sackett, of Long Island, 
who had been driven from his charge ?X Bedford, by his 
attachment to the views of Edwards and Bellamy — which 
led him to refuse baptism to th.ose who were not in fnll com- 
munion — was one. This man sympathized str(jngly with the 
revival movements of that day, which created so much dis- 
cussion in the Church ; and his monument pronounces him a 
"judicious, laborious, faithful and successful minister." The 
Rev. John Graham, for many years stated Clerk of the Pres- 
bytery of Duchess, and the Principal of Fishkill Academy, 
was another. His views (A the revival were like those of 
Mr. Sackett. 

The Legislature of the State of New York having passed 
" An Act to enable all the Religious Denominations of the 
State to appoint Trustees, who shall be a body corporate, 
for the purpose of taking care of the temporalties of their 
respective Congregations." April 6th, 1784, after legal notice, 
the Congregation of Marlborough met, and chose nine 
Trustees, viz: Anning Smith, Jonathan Browni, Michael 
Wygant, Isaac Fowler, Junr., Reuben Tookcr, Nathaniel 
DuBois, Daniel Kelsey, Samuel Stratton, and Wolvert 
Ecker, Esq.' This proceeding was proved, acknowledged, 



no The History of Marlborough. 

and recorded, according t i law. These Trustees chose 
Benjamin Ely, M. D., Treasurer, Collector and Clerk. 

On the 30th day ot September following, the Trustees met 
to transact some business which ihey would have blushed to 
record had they not lived in the days of ignorance. It 
appears that, like most others of that day, they had not 
learned the evil of lotteries, and they did not hesitate to 
resort to them to raise funds for religious purpcjses. They 
have accordingly left a record of a meeting to settle the ac- 
counts of a lotter}^ which had been " drawn for the benefit 
and use of the meeting house." 

The War of the Revolution, with its disturbing mHuences, 
being past, the people appear to have been animated with 
new zeal to promote the cause of religion, and to secure for 
theipselves a stated ministry. On the ist day of March, 1786, 
they commenced a subscription to pay for the services of a 
minister of the Gospel, who should preach in Marlborough, 
and in some convenient place in the Precinct of New Paltz. 
This subscription was signed by ninety men, nearly one-half 
as many as all the male heads of families, at that time, resid- 
in the township. Little more than one-third of the names 
upon it are now known among us. The sum raised was 
liberal for that day, and afforded a salary of four hundred 
dollars to the minister; better than twenty-five hundred at 
this day. 

On the loth day of June, the Trustees ai)})ointed Doctor 
Benjamin Ely to secure for them the services of a clergyman 
for one year; instructing him to obtain a man Irom some 
part of New England. Some of the leading men ol the 
Society, at this time, were from New England, and their re- 
cent supplies had come from that direction. The following 
ordinance is also entered on the records of the Trustees: 
" /i^Wtvv/, That no I5aptist or Se])arate Minister be alU)wed 
or admitted to j)reach, in the Meeting House, under any pre- 
tence whatever, without the joint and mutual consent of the 
trustees, or a majority of them, for the time being." 

The Rev. Ethan Osborn was the sui)j)ly t)btained by Doc- 
tor Ely ; and he labored in this place, in connection with 



The History of Mar/borough. 1 1 i 

Paltz, probably till 1792. About the same time, also, the 
house of worship underwent some repairs. 

The Congregation, finding itself again without a clergy- 
man, in May, 1792, sought and obtained the services of 
Mr. Abel Jackson, a licentiate under the care of the Morris 
County Association. On the 22d day of November follow- 
ing, he was ordained and installed, by that Association. 
He was the first minister, so far as we can learn, who had a 
formal installation over this Congregation. On the 1st da\' 
ot October. 1793, a Committee of the same Association or- 
ganized a Church of eight members, viz: Jonathan linnvn, 
Cornelius Polhemus, Andrew Ely, Abigail Polhemus, Dorcas 
Olford, Elizabeth Cropsey, Hannah Ely and Electa Pol- 
hemus. Five of these persons, at least, were received by 
certificate from Churches in Connecticut. This was the first 
Ecclesiastical organization, of which we have any account ; 
and it was formed in violation of the deed by which they 
held their Church property. That required them to be 
Presbyterians, settling only Presbyterian clergymen ; they 
had now become Independents, and had settled a Congrega- 
tional pastor. Accordingl)' the Congregation chose a new 
board of Trustees, and altered their style to suit their new 
Church connections. Efforts were made to obtain a new and 
appropriate grant of land, previously given to the Society 
but without success. Still, they held the Church property, 
valued at that time at one thousand dollars, untlisturbed ; 
and Mr. Jackson remained their pastor about seven years. 

For about ten yearj after Mr. Jackson left them, the 
Church was without any settled minister. During this time 
the pulpit was supplied by Isaac Sergeant, VVm. Bull, Am- 
brose Porter, Richard Andrews, Joel T. Benedict, and others, 
all of the same Ecclesiastical order as Mr. Jackson. Mr, 
Bull, who supplied the pulpit for some length of time, was 
an Englishman, exceedingly eccentric, and very prolix in his 
performances. He was a bachelor ; and sometimes, in the 
family where he boarded, continued so long in prayer, at 
family worship, that all deserted him. At a funeral he was 
known to protract his address till interrupted and admon- 



1 1 2 i'lic History of Marlborough. 

ishcd that it would be too dark to bury the dead. Mr. Bene- 
dict is said to have been a man of ardent piety, untiring zeal^ 
and much eh)qucnce, and to have drawn crowds to listen to 
his preaching. 

So far there had never been any special awakening of the 
Church, but of late there had been a general accession to 
their numbers. The whole number that had been admitted 
to the Church, up to i8o8, was 71, of whom 53 were still 
members. 

Being wearied with ditihculties growing out of their 
Church government, and discouraged about obtaining per- 
manent supplies of their present denomination, in 1809, the 
people began to turn their attention again to the Presbyter- 
ian Church. Mr. Jas I. Ostrani, a candidate for the Gospel 
ministry, under the care of the Presbytery of Hudson, occa- 
sionally attended religious meetings among them for some 
months. They also obtained some supplies from that Pres- 
bytery. In April, 18 10, they applied, l:)y their Commis- 
sioners, Charles Millard and Leonard Smith, to be taken 
under the care of Hudson Presbytery. At the same meet- 
ing ot Presbytery, Mr. Ostram was licensed to preach the 
Gospel, and on the first Sabbath after, agreed to accept a 
call from this people, in connection with the Congregation 
of New Paltz. He labored among them as a licentiate till 
September, when he was ordained and installed over them 
by the Presbytery of Hudson. 

The Congregation soon became enlarged, and a few more 
were added to the Church. In October, 181 1, a special sea- 
son of Divine influence l^egan, in this Congregation, and 
continued till the following Spring, adding to the Church 
I 16 members. During the period of this work, nothing 
special appeared in Paltz, although within six miles, and en- 
jox ing ])recisely the same means of grace; illustrating most 
clearly tlie sovereignty of Divine Grace, and teaching us 
that the Lord "will have mercy on whom he will have 
mercy." About the middle of February, 1820, it })leased 
the Lord to visit them with another revival, which added to 
the Church 150 more, (jo in a single day, ol whom 60 had not 
been before baptized. 



I 



TJie History of Marlhorongli. 1 1 3 

Being thus increased in numbers, and having enlarged 
their house of worship to double its former size, in 1827 the 
Congregation was separated from that of Paltz, the pastoral 
relation of Mr. Ostram to Paltz dissolved, and his labors con- 
hned to Marlborough. Here he continued his labors till 
March, 1829, when, having accepted a call from the Church 
in Salina, his relation to this Church was dissolved. 

The first bench of Ruling Elders ordained and installed 
here, in 18 10, when the Church was organized in a Prcsb}- 
terian form, was composed as follows, viz: Charles Millard, 
Leonard Smith, Allen Lester, Andrew Ely, and Nathaniel 
Bailey. Of these, Charles Millai'd departed this life, April 
30th, 1827. He was a man of blessed memory ; a devout 
Christian, and ready for every good woik. His character, 
and not wealth, made him a controlling spirit among the 
people. . Andrew Ely was a soldier of the Revolution. Of 
Allen Lester we have the following record : " He departed 
this life July 24th, 1834, m the 78th year of his age. He was 
the first deacon (he was both deacon and elder) in this 
Church ; had lived a uscfid life and died lamented." We 
have no doubt, from the business entrusted to Col. Smith, 
and the fidelity wilh which he discharged it, that he was a 
man of worth. 

In November, 1829, this Church extended a call to the 
Rev. John H. Lcggett, of Peekskill, and he wa^ installed 
their pastor the 7th day of January following. Next Spring 
it pleased God to visit the Church with " a time of refresh- 
ing," and it received an addition of more than forty mem- 
bers. Again, in the Fall of 1832, the Lord poured out his 
Spirit among them, and about forty more were added to the 
Church. In A[>ril of next year, Mr. Leggett, having re- 
ceived a call from the Church at Hopewell, Orange County, 
the pastoral relation between him and this Church was dis- 
solved. It ma}' seem strange that a revival of religion was 
followed so soon by such a result. But some awakenings 
have always been fruitful in such results. Mr. Leggett con- 
tinued his labors in Ho])ewell till 1854, when, feeling his 
health inadequate to such a charge, he accepted a call to the 
Church in the villao-e of Middletown. 



1 14 TJic History of Marlborough. 

On tlie i6t.li (lay ot September following, this Church made 
a call lor the services of the Rev. Leonard Johnson, who was 
installed their pastor on the 2d day of October, 1833. He 
labored here a little more than one year, and on the 29th day 
of January, 1835, his relation to this Church being dissolved, 
he removed to Triangle, Broome County, where after a long 
pastorate of nearly a quarter of a century, he died in 1859. 

Weary with changes, the people began to turn their minds 
again towards their old pastor, who had left them seven 
years since ; and they resolved now to extend to him a call, 
offering a larger salary than before and seeking to induce 
him to return. This call he accepted, and w^as installed again 
over them in the Spring of 1835. This time, however, his 
stay among them was brief: being but little more than three 
years. Yet he left behind some substantial results. He was 
instrumental in leading the people to erect a cheap parson- 
age, which has greatly increased the comfort and useiulness 
of his successors. In July, 1838, Mr. Ostram, having re- 
ceived a call from the 4th Free Prcsb3'terian Church, in New 
\'ork city, the pastoral relation was again dissolved. Here 
he continued to labor till 1852, when, luicler the infirmities of 
age, he left the city and retired to the village of New Wind- 
sor. Here he continues to reside, performing more or less 
pastoral labor, as his health will permit. 

At the time of the division of the General Assembly, which 
took place this )'ear, this Church was found in the New 
School body. Accordingl}^ Mr. Henry Belden. a licentiate 
of the lOi. Presbyter}' of New York, came among them, and 
supplied the ])ulpit from Jan. ist to April 15th, 1839. ^^ 
that time he received from them a call, and was installed 
their pastor the 2d day of May. He continued his labors 
here about seventeen months, and was instrumental in adding 
about forty to the Church. But his doctrinal views, and 
the measures which he adopted, were sucn that a large ma- 
jority of the Congregation became dissatisfied, and in Octo- 
ber, 1840, the pastoral relation was dissolved. Mr. Belden 
was afterwards susi)ended fiom llie functions oi the Gospel 
ministr}-, b}- his I'resl)}tcr3', loi- want of doctrinal soundness. 



The History of MarlborougJt. 1 1 5 

Soon afterwards, having received license from Oberlin, he 
buih. a Church at Washini^tonville, Orange County, of his 
his own order, in which he labored for a short time. Thence 
he removed to the citv of New York, where he still resides. 
A portion of this Congregation, who sympathized more 
strongly with the New School body than others, at this time 
erected a house of worship in Milton ; and (September 27th, 
1 84 1,) certificates were granted to fifteen of these persons, 
residing in and near Milton, for the purpose of being consti- 
tuted a separate Church. The remainder of the Congrega- 
tion appointed delegates to meet the Old School Presbytery 
of North River, and to renew their connection with that 
body. 

On the 25th day of January, 1841, the Presbytery appointed 
the Rev. John H. Carle as stated supply oi the Church of 
Marlbonnigh. He continued his labors here till the Spring 
of 1842, when he went to the Church of Rondout to officiate 
in the same capacity. After a few years labor in that, place, 
he returned to the Dutch Church, and labored for some time 
near Canajoharie. At present he is believed to be laid aside 
by ill health from all active labor. 

In the Spring of 1842, the Congregation sent to Princeton 
for supplies, and were directed by the professors, among 
others, to Rev. S. H. Jagger, then a licentiate of the Presby- 
tery of Long Island. He commenced preaching here on the 
15th day of May, and, on the 27th day of June, the people 
gave him a unanimous call to become their pastor, which he 
accepted. He found the Church much divided, owing to 
the recent change of Ecclesiastical relation, and other things- 
Many, having deserted their own Church, were \vorshipi)ing 
elsewhere. Although, in a short time, most of these breaches 
were healed, the pastor labored eighteen years without wit- 
nessing any extensive revival, and was instrumental in adding 
but one hundred to the Church during this long period. 

At the beginning of his pastorate, the Parsonage was 
mortgaged for nearly its full value. This debt was soon 
paid ; and the house, barn and grounds have since been much 
enlarged. 



T 1 6 The History of Marlborough. 

This ends Rev. S. H. Jagger's sketch of the Church. Its 
history since he left the Congregation is too recent to require 
production here. The following additional points of inter- 
est have been gathered from other sources : 

List ot pastors of the Presbyterian church: wSept., 1806, 
Rev. Ambrose Porter was ordained pastor. The subsequent 
pastors have been Rev. James Ostram, 1810-29; Rev. John 
H. Leggett, 1830-33; Rev. Leonard Johnson, 1833-33 I Rev. 
James I. Ostram, T835-38 ; Rev. Henry Belden, 1839-40; 
Rev. John H. Earl, stated supply, one j^ear ; Rev. Sam'l H. 
Jagger, 1842-69; Rev. Charles \V. Cooper, 1870-75; Rev. 
Duncan C. Niven, 1875-83; Rev. Charles E. Bronson, 1884. 

The elders of the church since organization, 1810: Gen. 
Leonard Smith, Charles Millard, Andrew Ely, Allen Lester, 
Nathaniel Bailey, Michael Wygant, Joshua Conklin, Gilbert 
Knitifin, Daniel W3^gant, Jonathan Cosman, Bernard Bailey, 
Peter V. Fowler, Thomas D. Bloomer, James O. Conklin, 
Asbury Wygant, Augustus G. Clark, Charles E. Bingham, 
Charles M. Purdy, and Cornelius D. Bloomer. 

In 1869 the old church was destro} ed by hre. The })resent 
house was built the following year, at a cost ot $33,000. 

In 1859, some individuals in the congregation engaged in 
erecting a small house of worship at Middle Hope. The en- 
terprise was one of doubtful propriety, and viewed with 
much suspicion by many from the beginning; and the 
result proved that their fears were but too well grounded. 
It created much jealousy, and led to divisions, till the prime 
movers of the scheme withdrew Irom the church and went 
to New burgh. 

In 1861, a small church of about twenty persons was or-* 
ganizetl in Middle Hope, being nominally separated from the 
parent church, but yet remaining in reality })art and parcel 
of it, having their old pastor installed over them. 

The Middle Hope congregation was never large, but the 
Church there survived and had an irregular existence until 
1885, when the building was sold to the Methodists. The 
renmant of the congregation previously returned to the 
Marlborough Church. 



The History of Marlboroinh. H/ 

Lattintown Baptist Ciiukcii. 

The following is taken Irom the " History of Ulster 
Connty " : 

The earliest record of the Baptist church at Lattintown 
to 'be found in the keeping of the church is the following 
copyinanold unruled writing-book, with pasteboai'd cover: 

" Record of the Trustees of the Meeting-House belonging 
to the Baptist church of Lattintown, in Marlborough. 

"Lattintown, January 2nd, 1807. 

" Church met according to appointment and elected 
Nehemiah L. Smith, Noah Woolsey, and Matthew Benedict 
Trustees for said church, to manage the aflairs of the meet- 
ing-house in Lattintown." 

The same ancient book is used by the church to record 
the annual election of trustees. It remains in a good state 
of preservation, and contains the names ol trustees annually 
elected (two years excepted) up to Januar), 1864. 

The society was incorporated by a certificate bearing date 
Jan. 26, 1807. The paper was signed by the officers who 
presided at the meeting, Matthew Benedict and Richmond 
Burwell. The trustees chosen were Nehemiah S. Smith, 
Noah Woolsey, and Matthew Benedict. The proceedings 
were verified before Judge Jonathan Hasbrouck, and the 
record attested by George Tappen, deputy clerk. 

The next record is found in a deed bearing date Jan. 26, 
1808, signed by Thomas Wygant and Elizabeth his wife, 
whereby, for the sum of ;^20, the lot of ground on which the 
meeting-house stands, also the graveyard, together contain- 
ing half an acre of ground, was conveyed to the trustees of 
Baptist church of Lattintown. 

The earliest record found in the church book states tiiat 
at a meeting of the church held in the month of May, 1812, 
Deacon Purser being present with them, made the church a 
present of this book, it being the one in use at the present 
time for keeping the records of the church. 

From the records it appears that the Pleasant Valley 
church, situated nine miles southwest from Lattintown, em- 



1 1 8 'f/u- liistoiy of Marlborough. \ 

braced members bxiiiix l)ut,h sides of the Mailborouirh 
iix-'Uiitains. On the 6th dI May. 1812, a meeting;' was ap- 
pointed 111 Latliutowii h>r the |)iiip()se ol eonstiliiting- into a 
sepaiate ihnrch those membcis of the IMeasant Valley 
chinch jcsidin^' on tlie easlcii\- side oi tlie Marlboroifgh 
mountains. ElcUr Lebbeus Laihiop being chosen to pre- 
side, stated the object of th.e meeting, and the im})()itance 
attached to it. After the cause had been presented, Articles 
of Faith, prexiously prepaied, were read in the hearing of 
those present desiring to be constituted into a sejxirate 
church. Tney individually signified their assent and agree- 
ment thereto, and were formally constituted in a separate 
church, adopting the name of the Baptist church of Lattin- 
town. The right hand of fellowship was given by Elder 
Lathrop to 24 members ])resent ; 5 were subsequently added, 
making a total membership of 29. A letter was immediately 
prepared and sent to the Warwick Association, asking ad- 
mission, which i-equcst being granted, the new organization 
became a member of that body. 

On the 23d of May the church extended an invitation to 
Elder Hall to become their pastor, and a request to that 
effect was sent to the Pleasant Valley church, of wdiich 
Elder Hall was pastor. In June following word was re- 
ceived from the Pleasant Valley church stating that their 
request was granted, and they might expect Elder Hall. 
In July following the Pleasant Valley church sent Brethren 
Jones and Edwards to the Lattintown church to inform them 
that they had revoked their decision respecting Elder Hall, 
and that they could not spare him, not even for half the 
time. The church then a})pointed a committee, consisting 
of the clerk and four members, to arrange sui)i)lies for the 
pulpit ; also, to open correspondence with ministering breth- 
ren with a view of settling a pastor. Their house of wor- 
ship had been completed two years beh)re their organization 
as a separate church, and in Jinie, 1810, the Warwick Asso- 
ciation held its annual meeting at Lattintown, when, the 
record states, an abundant provision was made for the dele- 
gates and their horses. 



The History of Marlborough. 1 19 

In September, 1812, Aaron Perkins accepted the invitafion 
of the church, and in November, 18 12, commenced his 
labors at an annual salary ot $200, with a positive under- 
standing that il either party wished to rescind the contract, 
that six months' notice should be given to the other party. 

In June, 18 13, Elder Perkins was ordained. The church 
were united with him. He was ardent and faithful, the con- 
gregation large and attentive, and Lattintown enjoyed years 
of happiness, usefulness, and prosperity. There are old peo- 
ple now living in the vicinity whose eyes glisten with delight 
as they c.peak of the days and years when Elder Perkins 
preached in Lattintown, when the meeting-house, with its 
capacious gallery, proved too small to accommodate the 
congregation, and those wIkj arrived latest drove up to the 
sides and ends of the meeting-house and sat in their wagons 
— there were no carriages in those days — and listened, and 
loved to listen, to tlie preached word. 

" Those were golden, happy days, 
Sweetly spent in prayer and praise." 

Elder Perkins remained with them as their pastor twelve 
years, during which time he baptized 160 members. In 1820 
an extensive revival took place, when the records show 54 
as being baptized. The largest membership during Elder 
Perkins' pastorate was 128. In the year 1821, Elder Perkins' 
salary was raised to $250 per annum, as a reward for his 
services and a token of respect and confidence of the church. 

In November, 1824, Polder Perkins received a call from the 
Berwick Baptist church, in the city of New York, which he 
felt it his duty to accept, and, after giving the Lattintown 
church the stipulated six months' notice of his intention, he 
took his leave of them. The church was next supplied in 
part by Daniel Hill, who had been licensed to preach. 
During the fall of 1826, Elder Draper had been introduced 
to them, and having preached with satisfaction, was called to 
preach for them half the time, for which services they agreed 
to pay him $75 per annum, and move his family gratis from 
the West. His term of siervice commenced on the istol May, 
1827. A resolution was adopted by the church that each 



120 TiLf History of Marlborough. 

member shall pay twenty-five cents per quarter for the sup- 
port of the gospel among us. Brother Conklin was appointed 
receiver and to collect and pay over the same to Elder 
Draper. On the 19th o'f January, 1827, the church passed a 
resolution that it was improper to take public collections on 
Lord's day. 

During the history of the church thus far the covenant 
and business meetings were regularly attended to on the 
third Sunday of each month in the afternoon, when the 
necessary business of the church was attended to, after which 
there was a free conterence among the members present 
respecting their progress in the divine life. These meetings 
invariably commenced and closed by singing and prayer. 
The same date is still observed by the church for holding 
their covenant meetings ; also, the same custom prevails 
with respect to commencing and closing their meetings. 
Their communion seasons have been observed once a quarter, 
on the Sabbath succeeding the third Saturday in the month. 

The records state that in April, 1827, the church met to^ 
inquire into the reason " why our Association neglect and 
even discard the old practice of ordaining deacons," and 
they by resolution bound themselves to practice as the 
Association directed. 

During the interval, until September, 1831, the church 
enjoyed peace and some good degree of prosperity under 
the ministry of Elder Draper. Some few were added each 
year to the church, of such as felt constrained to come out 
from the world and be a separate people. Some of those 
remain with the church to this day, and have continued 
with the church to rejoice in its prosperity, and to weep be- 
tween the porch and the altar when clouds of darkness 
brooded over Lattintown. Among such deserving mention 
are the names of Sisters Lucy Woolsey and Mary Ann 
Staples, both of whom in early liie embraced the cause of 
Christ, and who for near forty years past have been unwa- 
vering in their fidelity and zeal in their Master's service. 
Another, a prominent Baptist residing still in the vicinity, 
came before the church in February, 1813, relating his 



The History of Marlboroii'^li. 1 ^ i 

experience to the church, which being considered satis- 
factory, it was resolved to receive him as a member after 
baptism. He requested to be baptized immediately ; said 
he could not wait. It was no,w midwinter, and extremely 
cold ; the streams and ''ponds were frozen— no baptistry in 
those days. The brethren expostulated with him, advised 
him to wait. Remonstrances were unavailing. The ice — 
near a foot thick, and making rapidly — must be cut ; he must 
follow his Master's example ; and he has lived to see his 
children and his grandchildren after him buried by baptism 
in a liquid grave. His consistent Christian life and godly 
conversation for fifty years have fully attested the sincerity 
of his convictions. 

In September, 1831, Elder Draper requested a letter of 
commendation, which was granted, and the church was left 
without a pastor. 

Again the church, as usual on such occasions, appointed 
a committee to wait on Elder Perkins and obtain his views, 
and get him to recommend a supply, with a view to settling 
another pastor. Until July following the church was sup. 
plied by Brethren Bishop and Duxbury, when the church 
received a letter from Elder Archibald McClay, of Kingston, 
recommending Brother Hadow, recently from Scotland, to 
preach for them. After a month's trial, he was invited to 
settle as their pastor. In September following, a council 
was called to assemble at the meeting-house on the loth of 
October, to ordain him ; also at the same time and place to 
ordain their deacons. Brother Hadow continued as their 
pastor until Jan. 19, 1833, when the church informed him 
that in the succeeding spring they should make an effort 
to obtain Elder Perkins as their pastor, and he might seek 
some other field of labor. Brother Hadow left the church 
in May. In the meantime Elder Perkins had been written 
to and invited to again become their pastor; he declined, 
and again they were left destitute. 

In June following, John Alison — who had been a promi- 
nent member of the Presbyterian church at Marlborough, 
and also a student for the ministry — applied lor baptism and 



122 TJie History of Marlborough. 

admission to the Lattintown church. He was received, and 
also obtained license from the church to preach. During 
the next few months he preached to the church with great 
acceptance. In the spring of 1834 Bi'other Alison resigned, 
after which a letter was sent to Elder Perkins, inviting him 
to settle with them again as their pastor. Elder Perkins 
writes them in reply that he must decline, and also thnt the 
church owes him $50. 16 for services rendered ten years since. 
A collection was taken and the debt was discharged. 

On the 20th of December, 1834, the Newburgh church, 
situated ten miles South ol Lattintown, was constructed ; 
the Lattintown church being in a countrj^ place, and their 
members scattered abcnit the country, many of them residing 
nearer Newbui^gh than Lattintown. Several such, and 
among them some of the ofihcers and more prominent mem- 
bers, took letters and joined the Newburgh church, which 
greatly reduced the Lattintown church in means, strength^ 
and members. In the spring of 1835, Elder Powell directed 
to them Elder Jeremy H. D wyer. After hearing him preach, 
in June, 1835, the church gave him a call to become their 
pastor, which he accepted. During this year several more 
members took letters to join the Newburgh and Pleasant 
Valley churches, which still further reduced the Lattintown 
church. 

In the month of August it was resolved to hold a pro- 
tracted meeting, and Elder Powell was invited to come and 
assist Brother Dwyer in conducting the meeting. A com- 
mittee, consisting of Brothers D. Cosman and N. Mcrritt, 
were appointed to wait on the innkeeper, to request him to 
desist from selling liquor during the continuance of the 
meeting. He cheerfully complied with the request, and on 
the 20th of August, the meeting commenced. It was a bus}' 
season of the year for the farmers ; the attendance was small, 
and the prospect gloomy and disheartening. They humbled 
themselves in the sight of God, and after earnestly beseech- 
ing God to vouchsafe his blessings, they solemnly ordained 
their deacons, and concluded, notwithstanding the discour- 
aging cii-cumstances, to proceed with their meeting, to labor 



The History of Marlborough. 123 

and pray earnestly, and leave' the result with God. A 
glorious harvest of souls was the result, in which the sur- 
rounding- churches also largely participated. On the 2d 
of Se])teniber, 1835, thirty-three willing converts repaired to 
the majestic Hudson, and there, in the presence of many 
hundreds of spectators, they were buried by baptism in the 
liquid waves. 

Soon after the close of the protracted meeting. Elder 
Dwyer tendered his resignation, wdiich was accepted by the 
church, and again Elder Perkins was asked to furnish them 
with a paslor. In February, 1836, Brother Samuel Barrett 
received a call, which he accepted. He was young, ardent, 
intelligent, and pious, and under his watchful care the church 
steadily grew in grace and strength. They were united, use- 
ful and happy. Near the close of his ministry with the 
church, a large number of members took letters and moved 
West, where they formed a new and eventually a flourishing 
church. In April, 1839, Brother Barrett preached his fare- 
well sermon, and went to Port Jervis. After he left, Brother 
Davis preached for them until 1841. The church at this 
time was in a low state, but few attending the house of wor- 
ship. In 1844, Brother David Morris was invited to preach 
for them half the time. He divided his time between them 
and the Hyde Park church. 

In 1845, Brother S. Barrett was again invited to preach for 
them. He accepted the call, and again became their pastor. 
The records state that he preached on the 5th of April, 1846, 
to a crowded house, and all were happy to hear him again 
speaking forth the words of life from the sacred desk at 
Lattintown. The two intervening years the church steadily 
grew and prospered. In April, 1848, Brother Barrett re- 
signed to take charge of the church at Middletown, Orange 
county, N. Y., where he spent his remaining days. 
' In May following, Brother J. S. Adams commenced labor- 
ing with them, while at the same time prosecuting his studies 
in order to prepare himself more fully for the gospel minis- 
try. After he left, in February, 1849, ^ letter was sent to 
Rev. J. I. Grimley, who came and preached for them, and in 



124 '^^''^ History of Marlborough, 

March was engaged as their pastor. On the 15th of August 
a council was called, of which Deacon Staples of Lattintown 
was one, to sit in council and aid in ordaining Brother Grim- 
ley. After his Ordination, he preached acceptably and 
profitably to the church until September, 1850, when he re- 
signed and went to Unionville. During the thirteen years 
up to August, 1863, the church became very much reduced 
by deaths and removals. Preaching w^as rarely heard at 
Lattintown. The members became scattered, the house of 
worship dilapidated and uninviting. Application for aid to 
the State Convention was refused or neglected, and it was 
thought advisable by most members to disband. Meetings 
were neglected except by two or three sisters (those before 
mentioned, who still met to pray). The roof of the meeting 
house had gone to decay, the walls had fallen, the windows 
were broken.the storms beat and the winds sung their requiem 
through the old edifice. In August last (1880) a toil-worn 
missionary was directed that way. He sought out some 
members (then attending the Newburgh church). They 
spoke to him of Lattintown as numbered already with the 
past. He asked to preach for them. They tried to discour- 
age him, but he, neither daunted nor doubtful, appointed a 
meeting, and once more held out to them words of hope and 
life. This was Brother Cole, of the Greene and Ulster 
Mission, and to this as a period, and to him as an agent un- 
der God, they took as a new starting-point in their history. 
In 1863 a committee was appointed by the Central Associa- 
tion to visit the church. A meeting was held in October for 
the purpose of raising money to repair the house. A sub- 
scription-list was circulated, and the members took hold in 
earnest of the work before them, and complete success has 
crowned their labors. The old structure has been moulded 
into a neat, comfortable, attractive h(juse of worship. 

Rev. Joseph I. Grimley is acting as the pastoral supply to 
the church in 1880, the trustees of the church being Gideon 
Morgan, David Cosman, and Daniel Hasbrouck ; William 
Staples, church clerk. 



TJie History of Marlborough. 125 

The Episcopal Church. 

Christ Church, Marlborough, was the third Episcopal 
church organized in Ulster county. 

In 1836 the village of Marlborough contained between four 
and five hundred inhabitants, many of them descendants of 
the Dutch and Huguenot families, who were the earl}' set- 
tlers of the county. There were also a number of English 
and Irish families who were employed in the different manu- 
factories, and New Englanders engaged in merchandise and 
transportation. Many of these people were regular attend- 
ants at the Presbyterian and Methodist churches, whilst 
the others seldom or ever entered a place of public worship. 
The Rev. Robert Shaw, rector of St. Andrew's church, Wal- 
don. Orange county, whilst visiting some of his old parish- 
oners living near the village, heard of the spiritual des- 
titution of these English families, some of whom had been 
baptized and made members of the church. At the request 
of Gen. Gilbert O. Fowler, of Newburgh, he visited them 
and remained several days, making the acquaintance of the 
people, full}' informing himself of their number and con- 
dition. 

There were several influential families livino^ in the neioh- 
borhood, members of St. George's church, Newburgh, who 
offered to contribute libeially towards sustaining a mission 
church, if located in the vicinity. At their suggestion di- 
vine service was held in the district school house on Sun- 
day, the 1 2th day of February, 1837. This was the first 
public service of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Marl- 
borough. 

This service was attended by the people generally ; so 
much interest manifested that a meeting was called. The 
following named gentlemen were present: Edward Arm- 
strong, of Dans Kamer ; Thomas Fyfe, of Hampton ; John 
Buckley, Gabriel Merritt, Leonard S. Carpenter and others 
of Marlboi'ough. After consultation it was decided to take 
immediately the initiatory measures to organize a church in 
the village. 



126 TJie History of Marlborough. 

Permission having been obtained to occupy the Methodist 
meeting house on the two following Sundays, " Public 
notice was given that on Sunday morning next, the 19th of 
Februarv, and the following Sunday, the 26th, divine ser- 
vice would be held at that place according to the rites and 
ceremonies of the Protestant Episcopal Church ; all who 
were disposed were invited to attend, as it was intended to 
organize the church in the village of Marlborough." At 
the time appointed Mr. Shaw foimd a large congregation, 
most of whom were utterly ignc^rant of the church and its 
services. Prayer books were distributed and the people re- 
quested to join in the responses. The pages were called as 
the service proceeded. 

Mr. Shaw read the prayers very impressively, the people 
generally joining in the responses. The sermon was suit- 
able for the occasion and gave general satisfaction. Divine 
service was held in the same place on Simday, the 26th, and 
on Monday, the 27th February, 1837. The male members 
of the congregation met in the village at the home of Miles 
J. Fletcher and elected Edward Armstrong and Miles J. 
Fletcher church wardens, and Thomas Fyfe, Dennis H. 
Doyle, Leonard S. Carpenter, David E. Fowler, Andrew 
Oddy, Joseph Hep worth, Richard R. Fowler and William 
Cushion vestrymen, and they chose the Rev. Robert Shaw 
rector of the parish, the church is to be known as Christ 
Church in the village of Marlborough. 

The Church was admitted into union with the Diocesan 
Convention September 26th, 1837. '^he following spring 
Bishop Onderdonk visited the parish and confirmed two 
persons. During the summer divine service was held in 
the old school house at Hampton. In the fall and winter 
the congregation again worshipped in the Methodist meeting 
house. A lot ot ground, containing over an acre very elig- 
ibly situated a short distance south of the village, was 
generously donated by Dennis M. Doyle, on which the ve.- 
try erected a small wooden structure, 24 feet front and 48 
feet deep, with a tower and belfry in the western end, affoixl- 
ing sittings for 140 persons, at a cost of $2,500, includ- 



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ing the organ and bell. The church was consecrated by 
Bishop Onderdonk, September loth, 1839. The Bishop said 
in his address: "The union in this church of economy with 
great neatness, I would commend to the imitation of all 
parishes who would pursue the honest and Christian 
course of building in strict conformity with their means." 
At the close of the year Rev. Shaw resigned and accepted a 
call to Trinity church, Fishkill. The services were con- 
tinued b}' the Rev. George B. Andrews, rector of Zion 
church, Wappingers Falls, and the Rev. William Walsh, of 
Newburgh, until the toUowing summer, when the Rev. 
George VV. Fash was appointed missionary and chosen rec- 
tor of the parish. 

He entered on his duties July 5th, 1840. He began his 
work by organizing a Sunday school numbering 35 scholars? 
who were carefuU}' instructed in the catechism and at stated 
times publicly catechised in church. His entire time was 
given t(^ his parish duties. Bishop Onderdonk visited the 
parish the 28th August and confirmed six persons, and ex- 
pressed much gratification at the increased attendance and 
growth of the congregation. The rector of Trinity church, 
Fishkill, having resigned, it was proposed to the vestry that 
Rev. Fash be allowed to officiate for them on Sunday morn- 
ings, and hold an afternoon or evening service in Marlbo- 
rough. It was reluctantly consented to. The divided ser- 
vice was a serious loss to the church. It was discontinued 
at the end of the year. 

On resuming the usual services on Sundays, the church 
was well attended and the rector highly gratified by the 
presentation of a silver communion service from some ladies, 
members of St. Mark's church, New York. The vestry being 
unable to give Rev. Fash a sufficient supporthe resigned the 
ist of July, 1843, leaving many warmly attached friends. 

The services were continued by Henry Edwards, a 
candidate for holy orders, assisted by the neighboring 
clergy, until the spring of 1844, when he was succeeded by 
Mr. Samuel Hawksley. He was born in England and came 
to this country whilst quite young with an elder sister and 



T]ie History of Marlborougli. 

her husband, landing in Philadelphia. They lelt him there 
and went to the West. Young Hawksley was aided by the 
Rev. Dr. \Vm. Cooper Mead, Rector of Trinity churcli, who 
placed him at school and afterwards sent him to Trinity Col- 
lege, Hartford, wiier^ he graduated A. B. in 1839. ^^^ c"' 
tered the General Theological Seminar}- in New York in 
1840. His close api)licati()n to study so seriously affected 
his sight that he was obliged to ask for an extended absence, 
during which time he visited England, and on his return 
asked for a dismissal from the Seminary. Soon after he was 
employed by Mrs. Armstrong as a tutor for her ;ons. He 
volunteered his services as a lay reader, which were gladly 
accepted. 

In 1845 l^c was ordained deacon by Bishop Brownell, in 
Christ Church, Hartford, and soon after appointed mission- 
ary to Marlborough. He now relinquished teaching, and 
devoted himself to the duties o' the ministry. After two 
3'ears ol incessant labor, holding service at different places, 
baptizing the children, and by his kind and sympathizing 
disposition, he gained the confidence and esteem of the 
working people and gathered in the church a congregation 
respectable in numbers and regular in their attendance. 

On Sunday, May 2d, 1847, he was advanced to priests' 
order in St. George's church, Newburgh, by Bishop UeLan- 
cey, of Western New York, and soon after was made rector 
of the parish. His missionary labors were extended to Mil- 
ton and Lloyd ; afterwards to Stone Ridge and Ellenville 
frequently journeying on foot from village to village. In 
1850 he organized All Saints church, in Milton; in 1853 St. 
Paul's church, Ellenville, and had charge of St. Peter's 
church. Stone Ridge, preaching at each place one Sunday 
in the month, and on the other Simdays supplying them with 
lay readers. 

These arduous labors had gradually undermined his con- 
stitution ; his health was so nuich imj)aired that he was 
obliged to relin(]uish nis duties and seek a change of air. 
He visited the sea shore and returned home somewhat im- 
proved in health, but without that buoyancy of spirits lor 



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which he was noted. Before he had fully recovered his 
strength, he resumed his duties, assisted by a lay reader, 
he reading his sermons seated in a chair in the chancel. 
The following summer he was again confined to his bed. 
At the urgent request of his friends he consented to have a 
physician called. It was then too late. After lingering a few 
days, he died on Sunday morning, Sept. 2d, 1855. It might 
not be incorrectly said that he was purely worn out in the 
service of his maker. An appropriate monument marks his 
grave, bearing the following inscription : 

"Rev. Samuel Hawkslev, Presbyter, 

Rector of Christ church, Marlborough, 

departed this life Sept. 2d, 1855, aged 41 years." 

" Even so saith the spirit, for they rest from their laborsy 

After Rev. Hawksley's death, the church service was sus- 
pended for two Sundays. At the request of the wardens 
Samuel M. Akerly officiated as a lay reader until the 
following May, when the Rev. James C. Richmcjnd — then 
living in Poughkeepsie — offered his services. He officiated 
until the 1st of November, when the services were resumed 
by Mr. Akerly, who had become a candidate for holy 
orders. He was frequently assisted by the Rev. George B. 
Andrews, who at the stated seasons administered the Holy 
Communion. 

On Christmas day, 1857, the Rev. William Walsh, of New- 
burgh, officiated and administered the Holy Communion to 
a large number of communicants. The day being very cold 
and windy, larger fires were made than usual and were 
carefully secured at the close of the service. About six 
o'clock on Sunday morning, the 27th, flames were discovered 
bursting out of the windows and roof. Before assistance 
could be obtained the church was totally destroyed. It was 
insured for eighteen hundred dollars. 

The present structure was erected on the site of the old 
church, from plans furnished by Messrs. Richard Upjohn <i 
Sons, of New York. 



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The foundation was commenced on the loth of May. The 
work was carried forward very energetically, and completed 
the 20th ot October, 1858. The church )s a gothic structure, 
known as the early English, built of brick with substantial 
hollow walls with brown st(Hie trimmings. It is 29 feet 
front, 52 feet deep with a semi-octagon chancel of 18 feet 
deep. On the north side ol tic chancel is a robing room 10 
feet square. The tower is on the southwest corner 1 i feet 
square (intended for a spire So leet high from the ground). 
The entrance is through the tower. The roof is covered 
with slate. A large window occupies the western end. 
T!iis and the other windows are filled with enameled glass 
with stained glass boiders. The chancel windows are 
smaller. The central one has a nicely- finished copy of Sir 
Joshua Reynold's figure of Faith. The interior shows an 
open finished roof. The seats, pulpit, bishop's chair and 
altar are black walnut, oiled and polished. The Hoor, doors 
and trimmings are of Georgia pine. In the basement is the 
Sunday school room and in the cellar at the west end is the 
furnace, so carefully guarded that no danger may be appre- 
hended from it. 

The church was consecrated on Tuesday, October 26, 
1858, by Bishop Horatio Potter. There were present taking 
part in the service Rev. John Brown, D. D., of Nevvburgh ; 
Rev. Christopher B. Wyatt, of New Windsor; Rev. John R. 
Livingston, of Fishkill ; Rev. Joel Clapp, of Cold Spring ; 
Rev. George B. Andrews, of Wappingers Falls; Rev. Henry 
Anthon, D. D., and Rev. Theodore R. Eaton, of New York, 
Rev. Archibald M. Morrison, of Brooklyn, Rev. Samuel M. 
Akerly and Richard Upjohn, the architect, besides a large 
attendance of the people living in the village and vicinity. 
After the services were concluded the bishop and clergy 
and members of the congregation were hospitably entertain- 
ed at the house of John Buckley, the senior warden. The 
entire cost of the church including the furniture was six 
thousand five hundred dollars. 

Samuel M. Akerly having been admitted to deacon's 
orders was appointed a missionary and requested to con- 



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tiniie his ministration. On the ist day of December, 1859, 
he had the satisfaction of paying off the last and only obli- 
gation existing against the church, leaving it entirely free 
from all incumbrance. He was admitted to priest's orders 
by Bishop Potter July 21, 1861, after which the bishop 
confirmed seven persons. In the afternoon he preached in 
All Saints' church, Milton, and confirmed one person. On 
the 2 1 St of September, 186 1, the Rev. Samuel M. Akerly 
was unanimously chosen rector of the parish. 

At a vestry meeting held December 3, 1861, a letter was 
received from Mrs. Hester Doyle, offering to give the rear 
part of a lot adjoining the church containing about half an 
acre on which to build a parsonage. The offer was accepted 
and the building commenced in the spring. It is a frame 
building 40x28 feet, two stories high, commanding a charm- 
ing view of the river and adjacent hills. It was completed 
in October, 1863. It cost about $2,600. The last obligation 
against it was paid November 25, 1865. 

On the ist of June, 1870, John Buckley, the senior warden, 
died in the 85th year of his age. He had taken a warm in- 
terest in the church from its organization, contributing lib- 
erally towards erecting the present church and parsonage 
and served as warden and vestryman for over thirty years. 

At the Easter election, in 1875, Rev. Akerly gave notice of 
his intention of relinquishing his charge. At a vestry meet- 
ing, held the 22d of May, he sent in his resignation, to take 
effect on the 19th of June. Rev. Akerly's services in the 
parish commenced even before the death of Rev. Hawksley, 
for whom he frequently read the service, and from that time 
to the present he had faithfully served the church as lay 
reader, deacon and priest, and for seventeen years had been 
their faithful rector, leaving the parish entirely free from 
all pecuniary obligation. The resignation was accepted 
with a vote of thanks for his faithful ministration. 

On Sunday afternoon, June 13th, 1875, he took leave of his 
congregation, many of whom were unable to restrain their 
tears. On Saturday, June 26th, he and his family sailed for 
Europe, intending to remain abroad several years. 



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Rev. Geo. Waters, D. D., of Kingston, succeeded Rev. 
Akerlj, entering- on his duties the 5th of Sept., 1875. His 
family retaining their residence in Kingston, he was unable 
to devote his entire time to the parish. He resigned his 
charge, to take effect on the first of July, but consented to 
remain until the place could be supplied. The resignation 
was received with ver}- great reluctance by every member 
of the vestry. 

A vestry meeting held the 14th of October, 1876, unami- 
mously elected the Rev. John W. Buckmaster, of Elizabeth- 
town, N. J., rector of the parish. He entered on his duties 
I St of November, 1877. 



Wardens aud Vestrymen of Christ Church, 
SCarlborough, Irom the organization of the 
parish, February 26, 1837 to 1887. 

Church Wardens — Kdward Armstrong, Miles 
J. Fletcher. 

Vestrymen— Thomas Fyfe, William Cushion, 
Dennis H. D >yle, Lfouard S. Cariienter, David 
E. Fowler, Joseph Hepworth, Andrew Oddy, 
Richard U. Fowler. 

Tliese gentlemen (U'gauized the parish and 
were the first vestry : 
Edward Armstrong, served as warden for 1837 

and '38. Died 1840. 
Miles J Fletcher, warden for 1837 and vestry- 
man from 1838- '41 to 1843 '66. Died 1870. 
Thomas Fyle, vestryman from 1837 to '3'.), iu 

elusive. Returned to England. Died 1867. 
William Cushion, vestryman 1837 and '38. Re- 
turned to England. 
Dennis H. Doyle, vestryman lf'37 to '40. Died 

1844. 
Leonard S. Carpenter, vcsiryman 1837. warden 

]8:i8 to '47: again warden from 18.59 to '74. 

Died 1875. 
David E. Fowler, vestryman from 1837 to '40, 

and '43 to ^s. Died 1879. 
Joseph Hepworth, vestryman 1837 and '38, 

Warden 1839 to '56; again vestryman from 

1866 to 1875. 

Andrew Oddy, vestrynian 1837 to 18.56, warden 

1867 and '58, vestryman '59. Removed to 
Connecticut. 

Richard R. Fowler, vestryman 1837, again 1H41 

to 1845. 
James Carpenter, vestryman 1838 to '41 '44-'49- 

'.51, 1856 to 1874, warden form 1875 to '87. 
Dennis D. Piirdy, vestrymaji 1839 to '42. 
Gabriel Merritt, vestryman 1840 to '47, warden 

1848 to '53. Died 1853. 
Josiah W. Carpenter, vestrymen 1841 to '43. 

Died. 
Frederick Flagler, vestryman 1842, again '57-'58. 
John Buckley, vestryman 184'2 to '53, warden 

'54 to 1870. Died 187C. 



Benjamin Oddy, vestryman 1846 to '50. Died 

1361. 
Henry H. Holden, vestryman 1848 to '49. 
John Hepworth, vestrynian 1849. Died 1853. 
John Hoffenden, vestryman 1849 to '51. 
Andrew McElrath, vestryman. 1854 and '65. 
John W. Barrian, vestryman 1859 aud '60. 
Nathaniel H. DuBois, vestrynian 1864, 1876 

to '78. 
Ephenetus R. Woolsoy, vestrynian 1862. 
John L. Wygant, vestryman 1864 and '65. 
John A. Hepworth, vestryman 1876 to "78. 
Daniel Barnes, vestryman 1876 and '77. 
Gabriel Merritt, jr., vestryman 1849 to '53. 
Samuel M. Akerly, vestryman 1855 to "58. 
John W. Armstrong, vestryman 1854 to '63. 

Died 1870. 
Gouveneur Armstrong, vestryman 1864 to "75. 
William H. Armstrong, vestryman 1872 to '79, 

warden 1884 to '87. 
D, Maitland Armstrong, vestryman 1878 and '87. 
John Buckley, jr., vestryman 1850 to '59. 1876 

to '87. 
William F. Buckley, vestryman 1875. 
William Kelly, vestryman 1850 to 1861. Died 

1861. 
Marcus D. Kelly, vestryman 1868 to 79, '87. 
James S. Knapp, M. D., vestryman 1862 to 79, 

Died 1879. 
Pbilip A. Passman, vestryman 1857 to 1871. 
Christopher Champlin, vestryman 18.59 to 1874. 
Isaac Gonklin, vestryman 1839 to '48, 1860 to '66. 

Died. 
Wm.SiuithWright,vestryman,'60to'65. Died '65 
William A. Husted. vestryman 1870 and 71, war- 
den '72 to '75. 
Rnliis R. Skeel, vestryman 1861 to '63. 
Cliarh's .M. Piirdy. vestryman 1863 to ■67,1875 

to '87. 
Edward Jackson, vestryman 1867 to '75, warden 

76 to '79, vestryman '80 to '87. 
Charles W Jackson, vestrymm 1879- bT 
John Storer, vestryman 1879 to '85 
George S. Clark, vestryman 1880 to '87. 



Oct. 14, 1876, the present rector. Rev. John W. Buckmaster, 
of Elizabethtovvn, N. J., was chosen to the parish. He 



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officiates also at All Saints' Church, Milton. His ministra- 
tions have been productive of a great deal of good. 

James Carpenter became a vestryman of the church in 1838, 
serving several terms. In 1875 he became a warden. He was 
also church treasurer for some years, serving the church in 
all about 44 years. He died the present summer, full of 
years and full of honor. 



All Saints' Cmurch, Milton, 

was organized in 1850 by Kev. Samuel Hawksley, of Christ 
Church, as previously stated. Rev. Dr. Brown, of Newburgh, 
officiated at the laying of the corner stone May 30, 1854, and 
Bishop Horatio Potter held the consecration service in Oc- 
tober, 1859. It ^''^s always been in the care of the rector at 
Marlborough. The first wardens wei-e VVm. H. Gedney and 
Lee Ensign, the vestrymen Jacob Handley, David Sands, jr., 
James T. Knapp, Jacob Rowley, jr., Edgar D. Gillis, Smith 
Wood, jr., L. Harrison wSmith and Rich'd Gee. 



Marlborough Methodist Church. 

The history of Methodism in Marlborough has not been 
properly preserved. Away back in 1798 Luff Smith was a 
leader in the Marlborough class of the Newburgh circuit. 
Irregular gatherings were held here from that time to 1825, 
when the erection of a church building was agitated, and the 
old frame church on Main street subsequently built and used 
until 1867, when it was disposed of to the Catholic church in 
Marlborough, while the Methodists occupied the new church 
on Grand street, built by them in that j^ear. 

Two certificates of incorporation have been issued for this 
societ}^ one in 1830, the other in i860. The first one is dated 
Oct. 20, and the meeting was held in the village school 
house, James H. Longbotham and Barnabas M. Mapes being 
inspectors of the election of trustees, who were chosen as 
follows: Samuel Beebe, James H. Longbotham, Josiah Lock- 



i2<S The History of MarlborougJi. 

wood, 15. M. Mapcs and Charles Mcrritt. The instrument 
was sworn to before Justice A. D. Soper. The second cer- 
tificate was executed June ii, i860, before Justice Isaac 
Staples. L. W. Walsworth and Enoch Baxter were the 
inspectors, the trustees chosen being Morey Wygant, Enos 
Reynolds, John II. Baxter, Washburn Baxter, M. L. Masten, 
Daniel Decker, David L. Wygant, John C. Rose and Ben- 
jamin Rose. 

Charles Merritt was the first superintendent of the Sunday 
school connected with this church, so far as can be ascer- 
tained. When the new building was completed, in i8G7, 
Charles D. Brower was the first superintendent. Next came 
David L. Wygant, who had previously been assistant. George 
M. Bambart was the next superintendent in 1874. W. H. 
Reynolds in 1875, Rev. J. B. Hermance in 1876, A. M. Osborn 
in 1877, '^^'^^ James S. Carpenter in 1878 until the present 
time. 

The church's first organ was procured in 1867, and the 
organists have been Nettie Osterhoudt, Addie White, Mar- 
tha Wygant, May Barnes and Ilattie Ixniffin. 

The secretaries of the new church have been W. H. Purdy, 
James S. Cai-penter, W. R. Greiner, W. S. Barnes and Wm. 
Palmer. 



Milton Methodist Church. 

Nov. 16, 1812, the Milton M. E. Society was incorporated, 
the original trustees being Thomas Woolsey, Uriah Coffin, 
Richard I. Woolsey, Henry Woolsey and Jacob Da3ton. 
The ceiiificate was sworn to before Justice David Staples. 
The socict}' was only a station in a large circuit until 1858, 
since which time the pastors have been: 1858-59, D. W. C. 
Van Gaasbeck ; '60, J. A. Edwards; '61-62, J. W. Smith; 
'63, N. Hunt ; '64-65, E. S. Osbon ; '66-67, J. Craft; '68-69, 
D. Phillips; '70-72, P. C. Oakley; '73-74, M. Wood ; '75, F. 
D. Adams; '76-77, C. Palmer; '78, E. H. Roys; '79, J. L. 
G. McKown, died and year finished by PI. Jackson; '80-82, 
C. C. Miller ; '83-85, C. F. Wixon ; '86-87, C. H. Snedcker. 



Tlie History of MarllwroiigJi. 129 

The officers of the church in 1887 are : Trustees, Jesse 
Lyons, J. M. Purely. Jesse Lester, Jas. H. Crook, Isaac Conk- 
lin. Stewards, Jesse Lyons, Jesse Lester, Lewis Bloomer, 
J. H. Crook, Ethan Parrott, Griggs Rhoades, J. T. Marno, J. 
M. Purdy, James Clark. Sunday school superintendent. 
Earl Stone ; asst., Ensign Lyons. 

Rev. P. C. Oakley, aged 87, has been spiritual father to 
the village lor the past seventeen years, and still possesses 
full vigor of mind, keeping well abreast (^f all leading ques- 
ti(^ns of the time. 

The church has loo members, 25 probationers, and 130 
Sunday school scholars. 

The church building was put up at the time the society 
was organized in 1812. It has been enlarged and remodeled 
several times, and is undergoing imprt)vements the present 
year. 

Like the ■ Marlborough church, this society obtained a 
second certificate of incorporation. It was executed March 
18, 1H45, the trustees chosen at that time being James A. 
Disbrow, Isaac L. CrafI, James Blockledge, Jacob H. Gillis, 
and Rcmos Woolscy. 



Roman Catholic Churches in Marlp.orough 

AND Milton. 

There is no old history connected with the Roman Church 
in this town. The original settlers of the place were Pro- 
testants, and only during recent years has the Catholic body 
become established here. Now there are two places of 
worship, at Marlborough village in the old Methodist 
structure on Main street, which has been rearranged and 
placed in neat condition ; and at Milton in a prett}- little 
church. Alongside the latter is the parsonage, occupied by 
Rev. James F. Mee, who has charge of both churches. The 
Church flourishes and grows here, and holds annual fairs 
and picnics, which are largely attended by all denominations. 



130 The History of Marlborough. 

Milton Pri:si!Yterian Church. 

The Prcsl)} terian Church of Milton was or^;aiii/ed July 
i2tn, 1841, and the church building was erected during the 
same year. At the outset there were twenty members, of 
whom hfteen joined by letter from the church at Marlbor- 
ough. Rev. M. F. Liebenan was installed pastor of the 
churches of Lloyd and Milton Oct. 28th, 1841. He re- 
mained two years and was succeeded by Rev. W. K. Piatt, 
who also remained two years. The pulpit was supplied 
by several ministers (among whom was Rev. Sumner K. 
Mandeville, for twenty years pastor of the Presbyterian 
church of La Grange, Dutchess county) until March, 1849, 
when Rev. M. F. Liebenan returned and continued to preach 
imtil March 31st, 1867, thus ministering here more than twenty 
years in all. 

He was succeeded by Rev. E. VV. Clarke, who had es- 
tablished a boarding and day school in the village, and who 
preached until Rev. J. H. Myers, D. D., became the minister, 
April ist, 1868, remaining until the winter of 1871. Rev. B. 
F. Wilde followed, remaining until 1876. After him Rev. 
Duncan C. Niven occupied the pulpit until the spring of 
1884, when the church was again served by Rev. E. VV. 
Clarke with othei's. In April, 1885, Rev. Wm. G. Wester- 
velt came to Milton. April 28th, 1886, he was installed pas- 
tor, being the first pastor to serve the Milton church ex- 
clusively. The church has enjoyed several seasons of 
revival, and steadily added to its membership. At present 
(1887) there are seventy-four members. Financially, for its 
size, the church has always been strong. During 1886-7, 
the interior has been redecorated and a hue parsonage proj>- 
erty ])urchased, while the sjjiritual interests ol Ihe cluiich 
have l)een greatly advanced. 



Thk Mn/roN So( ikiv ok Frhcnds. 

The Society of Friends have held meetings at Milton lor 

at least one hundred years. The meetings were tiisl Itcld at 

the house of Edward Hallock, a minister. In 1789 se\en 

acres of land were bought on the west side of the main road, 



The History of Marlborough. 1 3 1 

a short distance north of the scho(jl house, district No. 2. 
A meeting--hoiise was built there and occupied for hfteen 
years, when it became too small, and in 1804 it was sold and 
a new lot bought on the same road further north. There a 
suitable large meeting house was built and occupied until 
1828, when, differences of belief having crept in, the church 
divided. The Orthdox Friends being in the minority, left 
the meeting-house in possession of the Hicksite Friends. 

The number of Friends being now very small, the meeting 
WMS field for two years at the house of Foster Hallock (now 
the property of E. VV. WatS(jn). 

In 1830 the Friends bought a lot of land of Foster 
Hallock, and built a new meeting house, which, though it 
has been repaired and modified at different times, has done 
good service for fifty-seven years. It had become so much 
the w(jrse for wear that in 1886 it was thought best to build 
new, and also to change the site nearer the village. A lot of 
land was [)urchased of James H. Barrett's estate, and a new 
meeting-hcjuse built, which looks very different from those 
erected years ago. It was opened on the 22d of 5th month, 
18S7, with appropriate dedicatory services. 

Samuel and Anna Adams were ministers who resided in 
this vicinity in the early part of this centur3% and labored 
faithfully for the upbuilding of the church hei'e, and also in 
many other places. Hannah P. Fry, a minister of more re- 
cent date, will be remembered by many as having served well 
her day and generation. 

Stephen Taber, also a minister, has attended this meeting 
over forty years and is still zealous for the prosperity of the 
church. 

During the past few years several ministers from other 
places have resided here for a short time, their service adding 
much to the interest and welfare of the meeting. Among 
these are George Wood, Jesse McPherson and P. Adelbert 
Wood, the latter being here at present. Of late years the 
Society of Friends have changed very much the mode of 
conducting their meeting. Singing has now a recognized 
place in their worship, and much zeal is shown by a large 



132 The History of Marlborough. 

projxjition ol tlicir members in carrying- the " good news " 
of the Gospel to those outside. Within the j)ast fifteen years 
the number of Friends in Milton has increased more rapidly 
than at any time previous. There are now abt)ut one hun- 
dred members of this church, including children. 



Knights ok Pythias. 

Guiding Star Lodge, No. 199, K. of P., of Marlboroug-h, 
N. Y., was instituted in November, 1883, by John F. Van- 
nort. Grand Chancellor State of N. V. H. Scott Corwin 
was the first Chancellor Commander. The Lodge has gnjwn 
steadily to the present time. For several years they have 
given annual picnics, which have become verv popular. 
The members are united and harmonious. The present 
officers of the lodge (May, 1887) are C. E., J. W. Badner; V. 
C , Harrison Berrian ; K. R. of S., W. W. Mackey ; P., Joseph 
Conklin; M. of F., H. S. Corwin; M. of E., F. A. Wright; 
M. A., William Henderson ; L G., John Lent ; O. G., Sher- 
wood Staples; P. C.'s, H. S. Corwin, James Shaw, Wm. H. 
Newman, W. L Staples. Geo. A. Badner. The other mem- 
bers are T. F. Knifihn, Moses McMullen, John Galaway, Ira 
Staples, Wm. McElrath, Wm. Wilklow, John Gladhill, H. 11. 
Baxter, C. W. Jackson, A. B. Masten, G. M. Phillips, John 
Morehcad, J. W. Baxter, Wm. H. McCuUough, John Ander- 
son, D. J. Scott, A. Lyons, M. V. B. Morgan, C. DeGraff, 
Lyman W. DuBois, F. M. Cronk, J. O. Mackey, Henry H. 
Case, Wm. P. Drake, Ellsworth Berrian, Wm. G. Penny, 
Edwin W. Barnes, 1. S. Rhodes, G. B. Sheldon, P. A. Rion. 
Thomas Carroll. The lodge is recognized as one of the per- 
manent institutions of Marlborough, and is destined to con- 
tinue in existence many years. 



Advance Loi)(;e ok Odd F1':lk()Ws. 

On the alternoon and evening of January H, 1882, .Advance 
Lodge, No. 490, 1. O. of O. F., was instituted in Marlborough, 
by D. D. G. M., Wm. Prull, of the Ulster and Delaware Dis- 



The History of Marlborough. 135 

trict, acting- as Grand Master, assisted by D. D. G. M., 
Schofield, of Dutchess District, acting- as D. D. G. M. ; Past 
Grand Van Bramer, of Kosciusko Lodge, of Kingston, as 
G. Sec. ; Past Grand Farrar, of No. 18, as G. Treas.; Past 
Grand Morehouse, of No. 18, as G. Warden; Past Grand 
Walter Goring, of No. 18, as G. Marshal; Past Grand Wm. 
Truesdall as G. Inner Guard. The original officers of the 
lodge, elected and installed on same date, were James Shaw, 
N. G.; L. McMullen, V. G.; C. W. Frost, R. S.; Clarence 
Bingham, P. S.; John Rusk, T. At the initiatory ceremon- 
ies, and conferring of white, blue, and scarlet degrees, the 
members of Acme Lodge, No. 469, of Newburgh, assisted. 

This lodge which started out with only nine members wow 
numbers over sixty, including' many of the influential men 
of the town. Invitations to its public gatherings are eagerly 
sought after. The spirit of the membership is full of broth- 
erly kindness and fraternal feeling. 



Ketcham Post, No. 495, G. A. R. 

In August, T884, Ketcham Post was organized in Marlbor- 
ough, as a result of the efforts of Hon. C. M. Woolsey, J. C. 
Merritt, Rev. S. P. Gallaway, C. W. Frost, P. V. L. Purdy, 
George A. Donaldson, R. Osterhoudt, R. H. Rose, Henry 
Scott, R. F. Coutant, A. B. Hasten and others. The Post 
took its name from the brothers Edward H. and John T. 
Ketcham, sons of David Ketcham, who gave their lives for 
their country, one at Gettysburg, the other in the notorious 
Libby Prison. 

Members of Pratt Post, of Kingston, and Le Fevre Post, of 
Highland, assisted in the organization of Ketcham Post, and 
the occasion was made a gala day by the people of Marlbor- 
ough. At least two thousand people assembled in and near 
the flag pole at the centre, to hear the speeches. A sul> 
scription of $100 was raised to feed the visitors. 



I 3 1 The History of Marlborough. 

Hon. C. INIccch Woolscy was the first commander of the 
Post, and Peter N . L. l\irdy now fills that position. The 
Post annually takes charge of the work ol decorating the 
gi'aves oi the djccased soldiers, filteen ot whom lie bui'ied 
within the limits of the town. They also exercise a care 
over sick and unfortunate old soldiers, whether members of 
the Grand Army or not. 

The Post holds its meetings each Thursday night, in Good 
Templars' hall. The membership is not large, and is made 
up ol men from different secti(jns and different companies, 
no company having been raised in Marlborough, although 
the town furnished about 175 soldiers for the late war. The 
Post often holds bean bakes and social gatherings, which 
are very popular. 



MaRLHOROUCH's LoDCE 'y)Y G(H)I) TkMI'LAKS. 

March iith, 1881, the. Marlborough, New ^'ork, Lodge, 
No. 351, Independent Order of Good iemj)lars, ol the village 
of Marlborough, was lounded. The charter members were 
Rev. Duncan C. Niven, L. P. Smith, Mrs. L. P. Smith, S. W. 
Stilwell, Rev. W. T. Brush, Mrs. C. Hanford, Mrs. I. E. 
Ostram, Miss Olivia Merritt, Mrs. B. F. Bailey, Mary C. 
Wygant, Mrs. Carrie C. Carpenter, Josephine Carpenter, 
Benjamin Bailey, Mi's. J. P". Knitifin, M. V. B. Morgan, Mrs. 
M. V. B. Morgan, E. J. Merritt, VV. R. Greiner, John 
Bloomer, H. Scott Cor win, Jas. S. Carpenter, W. PI. l\irdy, 
Enoch Baxter, Benjamin Baxter, Rosa Knififin, C. Y). Bloomer, 
James O. Mackey, K. D. L. Niven, Lizzie Wygant, Mrs. 
Melissa I\L Woolsey, Mrs. Susan Dobbs, Charles PL Wool- 
sey, J. C. Dobbs, Wm. vS. Barnes, Valentine Dobbs. One 
hundred and eighty-four meml:)eis ha\e been initialed during 
the six years of the lodge's historw The highest numbeion 
the roll at one time was one hundred and five. When lirst 
organized Marlborough lodge met in iludler's building, 
later in Shaw's building on King street, and now in Kniffin's 
block, occupying the hall, which is named after the organi- 
zation, Good Templars hall. 



The History of Marlborough. i 3 5 

The first Worthy Chief Templar was Rev. W. W Brush, 
Rev. D. C. Niven being Lodge Deputy. 

The Good Templars have done a good work in Marlbor- 
ough, redeeming a number from the thraldom of appetite, 
and leading many in the path of total abstinence. Though 
not a beneficial organization the members have more than 
once extended a fraternal hand to unfortunate members, in 
one instance contributing $50 to the relief of a member of 
the lodge in Milton. 

Prominent among those members who have stood by the 
lodge through thick and thin, from its inception to the |)resent 
time, may be mentioned S. W. Stilwell, Linus P. Smith and 
wife, Mrs. J. F. Knififin, E. J. Merritt and Mrs. Alice Stone. 
Others have done valuable work at different times, and 
deserve a share of the credit of building up the Order in 
Marlborough. 



1 



PROPERTY HOLDERS. 



The following list of the more prominent residents of the 
town ot Marlborough in 187 1, was taken from a directory of 
Ulster County printed in S3^racuse in that year. The fig- 
ures indicate the number of acres of land owned by each. 

Akerly, Samuel M. Rev., Marl., pastor of Episcopal Church. 
Alberson, John, Marl, ferryman and mail carrier. 
Anderson, Edward D., Mil., harness maker. 

" Francis T., Marl., farmer 22. 

" John, Mil., fruit raiser. 

" William, Mil., farmer, leases of Griggs Rhoades, 80. 
Archer, George, Marl., machinist, 
Armstrong, R. S. Mil., prop, of Milton Iron Works. 
Atherton, Charles, Mil., fruit raiser 2^., 

Atkinson, Benjamin D., Middle Hope, Orange Co., farmer 75. 
Badner, John, Marl, groceries, dry goods and ready-made clothing. 
Bailey, Anthony W., Marl., undertaker and fruit raiser. 
Elias, Mil., wheelwright. 
" James, Marl,, carpenter. 
Baker, Frederick, Marl., farmer 00. 
Ball, John B., Mil., fruit raiser 0. 
Barnhart, George, Marl., farmer 47. 
Barnhart, Jeremiah, Marl., farmer 26. 

Barrett, James H., Mil., rectiller of cider, fruit raiser and farmer M. 
Barry, James, Marl., farmer I'j. 
Barry, Patrick, Marl., berry raiser 5. 
Baxter, Enoch, Marl., farmer 60. 

Baxter, John H., Marl., postmaster and dealer in dry goods, gro- 
ceries, &c. 
Baxter, Washburn, Marl., farmer 5:5. 
Berean, Daniel, Marl., fruit raiser 22. 
Matthew, Marl., farm(>r 21. 

" Hamnel, Marl., farmer 120. 
Bernard, John, Marl., painter. 
Berrian, John W., Mil., farmer nn. 
Bilyou, William R., Marl., coo])er. 
Bmgham, Daniel, Marl., farmer 7.1. 



The History of Marlborough. \\j 

Birdsall, Andrew, Mil., farmer 15. 
Birdsall, Hosea, U. S. steamship inspector. 
Bloom, Mary L. Mrs., Marl., fruit raiser 2.^. 
Bloomer, Cornelius D-, Marl., farmer 140. 

" Thomas D., Marl., farmer 80. 
Brower, Charles D., Marl., fruit raiser 2J. 
Brower, James I. Mrs., " fruit raiser 3. 
Brower, William H., '' boatman. 
Brown, Charles, " farmer and berry raiser 13. 

" Daniel M., " berry raiser 1. 

" Joseph, Mil., farmer 15. 
" Thomas, Marl., farmer 50. 
William, Mil., shoemaker. 
Buckley, Margaret Miss, Marl., (wilh Mercy T.J farmer 60. 
Buckley, Mercy T. Miss, " (wWi Margaret.,) farmer 60. 
Buckley, Thomas T., " merchant and farmer 80. 

Carmiehael, Hu,L,di, Middle Hope, Orange Co , carpenter and farmer 6(». 
Carpenter, Celia Mrs., Marl., fruit raiser 1. 

" James, '' dealer in groceries. 

" Leonard 8., " farmer 150. 

Peter M., Mil., farmer 23. 
" Selleck, Highland, machioist and farmer 86. 
" William, Mil., surveyor and farmer 84. 
Caverly, Jonathan, Mil., commissioner of highways and farmer 14. 
Caverly, Lewis N., Marl., farmer 40. 
Caverly, Luther F., Mil., farmer 125. 
Champlin, Christopher, Mil., farmer 50. 
Chatterton, James I. Mrs., Marl., farmer 18. 
Clack, Robert, Marl., farmer 14. 
Clark, Augustus G., Marl., fruit raiser 40. 
Clark, Francis T., " drover and farmer 100. 

" Jeremiah, " farmer 100. 

J.Oscar, Mil., farmer 111. 
Smith M., Marl., farmer 2J. 
" William S., " manuf. of slate flour for roofing, fruit raiser 
and farmer 7. 
Clearwater, Ansom, Highland, farmer 40. 
Coe, Isaac D., Mil., farmer 8S. 

Coffin, Susan Miss, Mil., summer boarding house and farmer. 
Col. Pratt House, Mil., Jayhu Dayton, prop. 
Conklin, Aima M. Mrs., Marl., grist mill and farmer 145. 
Conner, Charles H., Mil., stoves and tinware. 
Cooi)er, Charles W. Rev., Marl., pastor of Presbyterian Church. 
Corwin, Samuel, Marl., dry goods and groceries. 
Cosman, D. H., " farmer leases 43. 
Covert, Cornelius W., Marl., farmer 98. 
Covert, Oliver, Marl., miller and fruit raiser 15. 
Craft, D. C, " farmer 75. 



13^^ The History of Marlborough. 

Craft, . " Lyons and Craft. 

Cronk, Henry, Mil., farmer 200. 

Crook, James H., Mil., grocer, freight agent and town clerk. 
Crosby, Ebenezer, '' farmer 2. 
Crosby, Levi, " blacksmith and farmer .%. 

(trough, Patrick, Marl., mason. 

Daugherty, Wm. John, Newburgh, Orange Co., brick maker and far- 
mer u. 
Davis, Ferris G., Mil., fruit raiser 1. 
Davis, Isaacs., " farmer 4. 
Diiyton, Jayhu, " proi). of Col. Pratt House. 

Morgan A., Mil., farmer 20(l. 
" (i)uimby. Marl., farmer 11 5. 

Thomas E,., Mil., farmer. 
Decker, Daniel, Marl., berry raiser 1. 
Degroodt, Arthur, " blacksmith and farnier:! 
Denike, Uuderhill, " farmer 2. 
Devoe, David, Mil., farmer ISO. 

Dickey, Robert J., Mil., druggi.st and notary public. 
Dingee, Enoch, Marl., farmer 50. 
Drake, Isaac, " fruitgrower 4.}. 
DuP)ois, Asa, " farmer 70. , 

Charles W., Marl., fruit raiser 1. 

Edward, " fruit raiser and farmer 150. 

'' Edward P., " farmer 50. 

Hudson, " fruit raiser 3. 

James, " carpenter. 

John, " carpenter and constable. 

John D., " farmer 39. 

Nathaniel H., " retired farmer. 
" Philip, " farmer 5. 

" Simon, " berry raiser 7. 

William, " farmer 70. 

Exchange Hotel, " S. H. Kniffm, prop. 

Farmers' Hotel, " Mrs. Sarah McMullen. i)rop. 

Ferguson, John, Mil., farmer 80. 
Ferguson, John D., Marl., farmer 4i). 
Fisher, John C, " carpenter and farmei-. 

Fletcher, Oscar B., " farmer 22. 
Foster, George, " far-mer 20. 

Fowler, Seymour, " farmer 95. 

Frederick, Peter, Mil., farmer 1. 

Gedney, William H., Mil., physician and farmer 140. 
Gerow, Isaac H., Marl., farmer 258. 
Gibbons, Edward, Mil., farmer 52. 

Gochringer, William H., Marl., carriage trimmer and harness maker. 
Greaves, Jos(>ph, Marl., man nf. of dye stuff and farmer 27. 
Grimley, J. L, Marl., fruit raiser 20. 



The History of Marlborough. 139 

Hadley, J. T., jNJil., steward of steamer ISt. John. 

Hagerty, Jolin, Mil., farmer 130. 

Hall, Bea.^ou, Marl., faiiner 5. 

Hallork, Gi orge, JNJil , fruit raiser and farmer 5U. 

Isaac S., " • prop. 01 cider mill atid farmer DO. 
" Nathaniel," prop, of grist mill and cider mill, and far- 
mer 200. 

Pbebe Mrs., Mil., farmer 5. 

Sarah H. Mrs., Mil., summer boarding house and farmer 4. 
Halstead, Phebe, Mrs., Marl., farmer 7. 
Haiidley, Jacob, Mil., farmer 10. 
Wtircourt, Eli, Marl , farmer 255. 

Emma Mrs., Mil., farmer 40. 
John W , Mil , farmer, 109. 
Hardenburgh, William, Marl., farmers. 
Hari)er, Sidney M. Mrs., Mil., farmer 40. 
flarris, Charles, Marl., shoemaker and mauuf. of essences. 
Harris, Isaac L , Newburgh, Orange Co., farmer GO. 
Hiisbrouck, Solomon E., Marl , homeo. physician. 
Haverly, John, " berry raiser 7. 

Haviland, James, " pattern maker and farmer 35. 

Hengstebeck, Capt., " prop. pai)er mill. 

Hirst, Jonathan, " farmer 50. 

Holmes, Elizabeth Mrs., Mil., fruit raiser IS 
Howell, Walter D., Marl., farmer 60. 
Hull, Oliver C , Mil., farmers. 

Hulse, Charles, Marl., (Hulse & Rhoads.) farmer 1\. 
Hulse, George E., " fruit raiser and farmer 59. 
Hulse & Rhoads, " (.Charles Hulse and Isaiah Rhoads, ) farmer li). 
Husted, W. A., " farmer 30. 

Hyde, Sylvan Mrs., '' farmers. 
Jackson, Charles D. " butcher. 
Jackson, Elisha P., " meat ujarket 
Kaley, Michael, Mil., farmer (iO. 
Kaley, Michael, " fruit raiser 6. 
Kelley, James, '* farmer 25. 
Kelley, Robert B., Marl., saloon keeper. 
Kenney John, Mil., fruit raiser 8. 
Kent, Oliver P., Mil., farmer and fruit raiser 100. 
Kerr, Robert A., Marl., farmer 120. 

King, George, Mil., looking glass and picture frame maker. 
Knapp, James S., Marl., alio, physician, justice of the i)eace, loan com- 
missioner and farmer 30. 
Kniffin, DeWitt W., Marl., manuf. of berry cups and berry raiser. 
Kniffin, S. H., " prop, of Exchange Hotel. 

Lawson, Georg-e W., " fruit raiser and farmer (30, 
Lawson, John E., " fruit raiser 50. 

Lent, Sylvanus, " farmers. 



140 TJic History of Marlborough, 

Lester, Jesse W., Mil., farmer 6. 
Lockwood, Charles A., Marl., (with Mary Ann). 
EliT., Marl., farmer (15. 
" John S., Marl., (with Mary Ann). 

" Mary Ann Mrs., Marl., farmer 45. 

Lounsbury, Rowland R., Mil., farmer 7;}. 

Lyons & Craft, Marl., (Jesse W. Lyons and Craft,) maoufs. of 

felloes. 
Lyuns, Jesse W., Mil., (Lyons & Craft) supervisor and farmer 140. 
Lyons, William H., Marl., farmer ;)7. 
Mabie, Lewis, Mil., farmer 15. 
Mackey, Carmine, Marl., (Mackey & Ventres.) 
" Daniel S., Marl., farmer 1. 

Daniel W., Marl., farmer 20. 
" Hiram H., Mil., fruit raiser 1. 

Isaac L., " farmer 80. 
" James Ostrom, Marl., teamster and farmer. 
Smitli, Mil., farmer \\. 
Thorn M., Mil., farmer 80. 
" & Ventres, Marl., (Carmine Mackey and David o. Ventres,) 
manufs. of berry cups. 
Wra. Wesley, Marl., cattle dealer and farmer 080. 
Maher, Jeremiah, " farmer 42. 

Marston, Hannah Mrs., " farmer 1^. 
Martin, William, Mil., farmer 118. 
Masten, Matthew L,, Marl., farmer 84. 
Matthews, Joseph, " farmer 60. 

McCale, Anthony, " farmer leases of Eli Harcourt 50. 

McCarty, Cornelius, " berry raiser 3. 
McCarty, James, " farmer 10 

McConnell, Francis, " assessor, farmer 14 and leases 80. 
Philip D., " (with William.) 
" William, " farmer 28. 

McCullough, Wm. H., " wagon maker. 
McElrath, John, " carpenter and farmer 45. 

McP^lrath, Thomas, " farmer 52. 
Mct^oweii, James, Mil , farmer J. 
lAfcAIanus, Peter, " farmer O 
]\[c]Millan, Wm. J., " stoves and tinware. 
MclNIulleii, Sarah IMrs., Marl., proprietor of Farmers Hotel. 
Merrill, Henry, '' farmer 100. 

" James D., " farmer 50. 

Wygant, " farmer 100. 

Millard, J. P. & Brother," (Samuel N.) freigliters, forwarders and 
dealers in lumber and coal. 
Samuel N.. Marl., (J. P. IMillard & Brother,) farmer 1. 
Miller. Abraham, Mil., manuf. of boots and shoes. 

Christopher Jacob, Mil., hair dresser and dealer in cigars. 



TJie History of Marlborough. 141 

Milton Iron Works, Mil., R. S. Armstrong, i)roi>. 

Moore, Edwin, " farmer 45. 

Morgan, Gideon B., Marl., farmer 90. 
Murray, Elizabeth Mrs., Mil., farmer 5(i. 
Myers, J. H. Eev., " pastor 1 resbyterian Church. 

Nevin, Samuel, Marl., blacksmith. 
Newman, John, Mil., manuf. of wheelbarrows. 
Nicklin, William, Marl., litfiographer and fruit raiser 20. 
Northrip, Emma Mrs., Mil., farmer 28. 
Northi[). C. S., " farmer 30. 

Norton, James, Marl., farmer 4-1. 
Oakley, Peter C. Rev., Mil., pastor M. E. Chur.h. 
O'Connor, Patrick, " farmer 92. 

Ordway, Charles T., " carriage and sleigh maker and farmer 2. 
Ostrander, Wm. Rev., Marl , pastor M. E. Church. 
Ostrom, James I. Rev., Marl., retired Presbyterian clergyman. 
Palmer, Henry, l\Iil., fanner 108. 

Park, Jesse K., Marl., inventor and [nanuf. of tracing paper, engineer- 
ing cloth and telegraph t)aper. 
Parmalee, William L., ]\Iarl., carpenter. 
Parrott, Ethan, Mil., postm:i,ster and general merchant. 
Pcirrott, George, '" saloon. 
Parrott, M. E., " dentist. 

Patchin, Hichard H., (Newbnrgh, Orange Co.,) farmer 120. 
Patten, Eugene F., Mil., meat market. 
Peck, Wm. M., Marl., f.rmer 15. 

Pembr-jok, Isaiah B.. Marl , carpenter and Iriiit raiser 1. 
Perkins, Friend W , Mil., (K. D. Perkins & fc;on.) 
Perkins, R. D. & Son, " (Richard D. and Friend W.,) cooperage. 
Perkins, Ricliard D , " (R. D. Perkins & Son.) 
Phillips, Oscar, Marl., farmer 7. 
Plumsted, Chas. D., " farmer leases 70. 
Plum.-:>ted, Henry, " farmer 1. 

Porter, Henry B..(Newburgn, Orange Co. )bauking clerk an 1 farmer lO. 
Porter, John B., Marl , farmer 2G. 
Poyer, Benjamiri, " farmer 75. 
Purdy, Adolphus G., Marl., engineer. 

" Dennis D., " farmer 50. 
George W., " farmer 90. 

" Hackaliah, " farmer 98. 

" Isaac, MU , cooperage. 

'' John M., " cooper. 

" Sylvanus, Marl., farmer 50. 

" William H , " mechanic. 

" William J. " commissioner of hig iwm.\s and fruit raiser 30, 
Quick, E. Miss, Mil., farmer 15. 
Quick, Mary Eliz i Mrs., Marl., farmer 27 
Quimby, James, Marl., teamster and fruit raiser 7. 



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142 The History of Marlborough^ 

Qiiimby, John C. Marl., (with Samuel L.,) farmer 55. 
Quimby, Samuel L., Marl., (with Joha C.,) farmer 55. 
iJand, Armiiida Mis., (Newbui-gh, Oraiigt^ Co.,) farmer iu. 
liansley, James, Mil., fruit raiser and farmer IG. 
Kausley, Wm.S., " (with James.) 
Keiu, Jolin, " feiryman to Poughkeepsie. 

Reynolds, Chailes B., Mai 1., fruit raiser and farmer leases 40. 
Reynolds, Chailes E., " assessor, 
lleyuolds, Euos, " farmer 24. 

Keyuolds, Isaat-, " farmer 35. 

Rhoades, Elijah R , Mil., wheelbarrow niauuf. 
Elizabeth, Mrs., Mil., resident. 

" Jonah, Mil., farmer 15. 

" Lorenzo C, Mil., farmer 3. 
Rhodes, Benjamin W., " farmer leases of Mrs. Harriet, 75. 

" Isaiah, Marl., (Hulse & Rliodes,) farmer 1\. 

" James K., " farmer 2. 

" Lewis G., Mil., farmer 32. 

" John L., " farmer 17. 
Roe, Benjamin, " fruit raiser 3^]. 

Roe, Beijjamin E., " (P. W. & B. E. Roe.) 
Roe, Peter W., " (P. W. & B. F. Roe.) 

Roe, P. W. & B. E., " (Peter W. aud Benj. E.,) carpenters and 

builders. 
Roe, William, Mil., steward of boat Mary Powell. 
Rose, Benjamin A., Marl., fruit grower and farmer 5U. 
Rose, Joan C, " retired farmer 1. 

Rose, Reuben H., " farmer 27. L 
Rowley, Daniel, Mil., livery stable. 

Daniel, " overseer of the poor and farmer 55. 
Jacob, " groceries, boots and shoes. 
Ryan, John, Marl., farmer 4G. 

Sands, David, '' justice of the i)eace and collector of accounts. 
Sands, David Mrs., Marl., fruit raiser 26. 
Satterlee, N. B., " hair dresser. 
Schultz, Isaac Mrs., " farmer 1. 
Scofield, Edgar, Mil., fruit raiser 2. 
Scott, D., Marl., (with James D.) farmer 4'J. 
Scott, Henry, " farmer 4. 
Scott, James D., Marl., fwith D.,) farmer 49. 
Sears, Sherburne, Mil., farmer Itxt. 
Sears, Thomas, Marl., farmer 45. 
Shaw, James, " stoves and tinware. 
Sherman, Isaac, Mil., (withTownsend H.,| manuf. of cider and vinegar, 

and farmer 124. 
Sherman, Townsend H., Mil., (with Isaac,) manuf. of cider and vinegar 

and farmer 124. 
Sherow, David, Marl., farmer 2.1. 



The History of Marlborough, 143 

^herow, George, Marl., farmer 5ij. 
Shorter, Beojamin W., Mil., farmer 100. 

" B. Wesley, '' school teacher and farmer. 
" William A., " school teacher and farmer. 
Smith, Abiah, Marl., (with Hester E.,) larmer 10. 
" Abraham B., Marl., farmer 75. 
" Clark, Mil., manuf. of coffee and spice mills. 
Daniel, Marl., farmer 77. 
Evert v.. Mil., fruit raiser 20. 
' " Hester E., Marl., (with Abiah,) faraier 10. 
" Lewis, Highland, farmer 105. 

" L. Harrison, Mil., dealer in coal and lumber, and farmer 3. 
Sommer, John, Marl., shoemaker. 
Sparks, J. W. Rev., Mil., pastor Episcopal church. 
Stai)les, Davis S. Marl., farmer 125. 
" Ira, " saw mill. 

" Isaac, " insui'ance and real estate agent, and farmer 8. 

" Jonathan M., Marl., farmer 7. 
Samuel, " farmer 200. 

Stilv^rell, Samuel, " farmer 17. 

Stott, Charles E., Mil., druggist in New York. 

Taber, Stephen, '' minister of Society of Friends and farmer 115. 
Tanner, William, " prop, of Milton Hotel. 

Taylor E. E. L., Rev., Marl., Secretary of Baptist Home Mission So- 
ciety and farmer 100. 
Terwilliger, John S., Marl., farmer 85. 
Thorn, Gershom, , " farmer 05. 

Tooker, Charles, " wagon maker and berry raiser 5. 

Topping, Nathaniels. " carriage maker and farmer 5. 
Townsend, W. H. Mil., general merchant. 
Tuthill, Sarah Mrs. " farmer 15. 
Twoomey, Jeremiah, Marl., farmer 13. 
Underwood, Daniel L., " carriage painter. 
Vail, Dewitt C, Mil., farmer 100. 
VanAmburgh, David E., Marl., butcher. 
Van Fradenburgh, David Rev., Mil., Baptist clergyman. 
Velie, Ezekiel, Marl., farmer 117. 
Ventres, David B., " (Mackey & Ventres.) 
Warren, Phebe A. Miss, Mil., farmer 48. 
Warren, Stephen D., Marl., blacksmith. 
Watson, Ellas., Marl., farmer 40. 
Watson, E. W., Mil., farmer IJ. 
Whitmore, John, Marl., wagon maker. 
Whitney, J. F. & Son, Mil., (Oliver B.) manufs. of veneer berry cups 

and baskets. 
Whitney, Oliver B., Mil., (J. F. Whitney & Son.; 
Williams, Nathaniel, " carpenter. 

Williams, W. R., Rev., Marl., pastor of Baptist Church, New York, 
and farmer 100. 



144 ^/^^ History of Marlborough, 

Winter, Adam, Marl., farmer leases of B. A. Rose, 5. 

Wolley, William D., Mil., farmer 100. 

Wood, Caleb, Mil., ferryman and mail carrier. 

Woolsey, 0. M., " lawyer, member of Assembly and farmer. 

Woolsey, David W., Mil., farmer 160. 

Eli is., '■ fruit nursery and farmer 3. 

John E., Marl., meat market. 
William H., Mil., school teacher and farmer IGO. 
Wright, N. W., Marl., miller. 
Wygant, Asbury, K., Marl., farmer 150. 
" • Augustus " farmer 100. 

" Charles D., Highland, farmer leases of Selleck Carpenter 86. 
" Clemence, Mail., farmer 160. 
" Cornelius, " farmer 50. 
Daniel, " farmer 91. 

" David L.. " blacksmith. 

Dennis M., " (E. J. & D. M. Wygant. 

Edward J., " (E. J. & D. M.) 

E. J. & D. M.,Marl., (Edward J. and Dennis M.,) fruit raisers 

and farmers 150. 
J. Ward, Marl., farmer 100. 
L. M., Mil., farmer 50. 

Martha J. Miss, Marl., (Misses M. & M. J. Wygant.) 
Mary Miss, Marl., (Misses M. & M. J. Wygant ) 
M. & M. J. Misses, INlarl., (Mary and Martha J.) 
dressmakers and milliners. 
" Mory, Marl., farmer 115. 
Young, Charles, Marl., (with Wm. C.,) fruit raiser. 
" John, Mil., farmer 300. 

John H., Mil., fruit raiser and farmer 100. 
Smith, " farmer 140. 
" William C, Marl., freight agent, fruit raiser and farmer 95. 



<\(^^«X5~ 



DIRECTORY OF OLD RESIDENTS, 



Residents Near Marlborough in 1763 and Later. 

The following is taken from an old history of the Town 
of New burgh : 

"Above Balmville lived Samuel Fowler, the father of Sam- 
uel Fowler (of Newburgh), the Methodist minister of the 
last generation, a very devout and pious man. 

"Next were the fathers of Arthur Smith, Esq., and Jehiel 
Clark. Their fathers purchased their lands together at 17s 
6d per acre, and divided. 

"Next about these were Gilbert Purdy and Luff Smith. 
Some of the Purdy lands are owned by Mr. Wood, and lie 
in the village of Middle Hope. Within a few past 3'ears 
Timotliy Wood has erected one of the most beautiful resi- 
dences on this road. The farms that we have referred to 
were long and narrow, and generally ran through the 
patent east and west to the river. 

"They are now in a finestateot agricultural improvement 
— very different in appearance from what they were at the 
time we speak of. They were located and improvements 
made on them by the settlers above named as early as from 
1730 to 1750, — for at the first formation of the town, in 1763, 
these names appear on the records ; and this district of the 
country seems then to have been quite populous. During 
the war Marlborough was quite a village, and some of the 
Whigs fled there from New York. 

"The earliest deed we have seen for a purchase in the dis- 
trict we have been speaking of, was from William Elsworth, 
of the Precinct of the Highlands, to Samuel Stratton, of the 
same place, for one hundred and forty acres, dated in 1753. 
The deed was shown us by Mr. Samuel Clark, of Middle 
Hope, a descendant of Jehiel Clark, the lirst settler of that 



I46 The History of Marlborough. 

name, and now owns the lands. Mr. Elsworth was hot ii 
patentee, but a second-hand purchaser. 

"Rossville must have been settled about the same time. 
This is in Wallace's Patent, which was small — only 1,900 
acres. Joseph Penny purchased the whole patent and set- 
tled it chiefly with his childien. He had seven sons — John, 
William, Robinson, Joseph, Peter, James, Allen, and a 
daughter, Nelly, who never married. 

"Mr. Penny sokl two hundred or three hundred acres to 
Robert Ross, the father of William and Alexander Ross. 
Mr. Ross was a tanner and shoemaker, and during the war 
conducted the business to some profit. He first built a 
house and then established his )'ard and shop. He subse- 
quently, and before the war, perhaps as early as T760, built 
a stone house, which is still standing, and makes part ol the 
present residence of Mr. Adderton, who owns the family 
residence. The yard was standing and vats open when Mr. 
Adderton took possession, since the death of Alexander Ross, 
and were filled up by him. 

"We are informed that no part of the original purchase 
made by Mr. Penny is in the possession ol his descendants. 
That by Mr. Ross has passed out of his family. If this is 
true, it is rather singular that so much land — a whole patent 
— and owned b}^ an individual who had seven gi'own up 
sons to settle and cultivate it, should in one century have 
passed out of the possession of his descendants. We have 
not met with another case in the county. 

"The ancestors of Daniel Tooker, Esq.,and of Daniel Mer- 
ritt, Esq., in this vicinity, are among the oldest in this part 
of the town ; their names are on the records at its earl}- or- 
ganization. Both seem to have been active and influential 
men." 



Rksidents from 1779 TO 1788. 

From various records are rei)r()duced the lollowing names 
of old residents in 1779, whose descendants still live in Marl- 
l)orough or vicinity : David, Caleb and Josiah Merritt, 



The History of Marlborough. 147 

Henry Decker, Lewis DuBois, Isaac Cropsey, Adam Crop- 
sey, John, Peter, Lewis and Thomas Quick. These lived 
where the village of Marlborough now is, and to the west of 
it. 

In the vicinity of Milton village in 1779, lived the follow- 
ing: Nathaniel Harcourt, James and Nathaniel Quimby, 
John Woolsey, John Young. Wright Carpenter, William 
Lyons, Capt. Anning Smith, Jacob Wood, Edward Hallock, 
jr., Samuel Hallock. 

In and near Lattintown in 1779 lived Edward Hallock, sr, 
Nehemiah Smith, William, Richard, Noah and Jonathan 
Wocjlsey. 

In the western part of the precinct in 1779 were located 
Leonard Smith, Elisha Purdy, Samuel Merritt, Jacob Can- 
niff, Isaac Lockwood, Alexander Cropsey, Richard Carpen- 
ter, John, Philip and Peter Caverly, Joseph and Benjamin 
Carpenter. 

In 1788 Lewis DuBois was the largest land t)wnerin Marl- 
borough, his property comprising the present village and 
some distance north and west. Caleb and Josiah Merritt 
each owned a large number of acres south of Lewis DuBois. 
Leonard Smith owned land on the Lattintown road. Luff 
Smith had property in and west of Milton. John Hall, 
Zadok and John Lewis, Isaac Rowley and Jacob Wood also 
were landholders in that vicinity. Elijah Lewis owned a 
dock and other property near Milton. On the Lattintown 
road, south of where Clark's mill now is, Alexander Cropsey, 
James Merritt, John Case and Humphrey Merritt each 
owned good sized farms. South of them toward Newburgh 
were the following property holders: Matthew, Thomas 
and John Wygant, Isaac Lockwood and John Bond. Silas 
Purdy (jwned the mill property where Clark tS: Son now are. 
In the wt?stern part of the precinct John Hallock, Solo- 
mon Fowler, Abel Adams, Nathaniel Hull, sr., owned land. 
In the southwest corner of the precinct Samuel Merritt held 
a large extent of land. The Caverly 's all owned land west 
of Milton, John having the most. Leonard Smith, Nathan- 
iel Kelsey and Job St. John had large holdings north of 



148 The History of Marlborough. 

Milton. Edward Hallock was a large landholder south of 
Milton. 

In 1799 John J. E. Robart was the next largest landowner 
in the southern part of the precinct to Lewis DuBois. His 
property was where Africa lane now is. He owned and 
liberated a good many slaves, who settled in that section 
and gave the street a name from their fatherland. At Mil- 
ton Nathaniel Harcourt and Anning Smith were the largest 
property holders. James Hallock, John Caverly, John 
Wood and Benjamin Sands were large taxpayers. 



Residents of Milton, Marlboroucii and Vicinity 

IN I 8 16. 

The following is believed to be a tolerably accurate list 
of the principal residents of Milton, Marlborough and vicin- 
ity, during the period from 1816 to 1825. It is compiled 
mostly from the ledgers and account books of David Sands, 
sr., who did a large business in Milton, and there were but 
few people but had some dealings with him during those 
years. It is therefore the best directory of Marlborough in 
1816, which can be obtained at this time: 

Darius Ayres, Samuel Adams, Lawrence Alschoff, John 
Anthony, Loama Adams, David S. Adams, Nathaniel Ad- 
ams, Peter Alsdorff, David Ayers, Benjamin Anthony, Aick- 
ford Armstrong. 

Moses Birdsall, John S. Brewer & Co., Matthew Benedict, 
Jacob Bailey, Edward G. Burger, William Bolton, Oliver 
Brodhead, Hait Benedict, John Benedict, Daniel Brannan, 
Townsend Barrett, R. C. cV A. C. Brodhead, Conrad Bishop, 
Isaac Bogardus, Isaac Barton, William Banks, Zachariah 
Baird, Nicholas Belly, Jacob Bailey, Richard BuFgei", Jesse 
Booth, Catherine Bailey, George W. Birdsall, Dolly Booth, 
Robert Brown, John Bradley, Stewart cSl Birdsall, Sands 
Beech, Nathaniel Bailey, Joseph Brown, Obadiah Brown, 
Charles Brown, Wesley Brodhead, Lewis Booth, Jane Bel- 
ly, Absalom Barrett, John Brower, A. D. Brower, James 



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Bunday, C. Bishop & Brown, Caleb Bishop, jf., Isaac Bfown, 
Amos Brodhead, Abraham Black, Joel Baker. 

John Caverley, David Conklin, Jones, Conklin & Co. 
Samuel Crbpsey, Peter Crookstan, Uriah Coffin, Peter Cou- 
tant, Henry Crawford, John Cropsey, Robert Chambers, 
Hezekiah Coffin, Abagail Crawford, Elijah Coffin, Haddock 
Carpenter, David Clearwater, Richard Cole, Augustus 
Conklin, Charles Craft, Peter Brookstone, John Cole, Mapes 
Crouse, Samuel Cypher, Thomas VV. Cole, Nathaniel Chit- 
tendan, Seth Conklin, Nathaniel Clarke, John D. Crook, J. 
T. Conklin & Co., John Church, Peter Clearwater, Joseph 
Clearwater, Ebenezer Cooley, John Caton, George Conklin, 
Josiah Cooper, William Cramer. 

Jonathan Deyo, Paul Darrow, Robert Dunn, Theodore 
Dusenbury, Peter DuBois, Samuel Dusenbury, William 
Dow, Jacob Dayton, John Davis, Jones Denton, James 
Dow, Richard DuBois, Samuel Drake, Robert Dillon, Cor- 
nelius DuBois, Charles L. Davis, Charles Decker, John 
Deyo, Benjamin Dunn, Rachael DuBois, Emeline Dowe, 
James DeMott, Walter Dobbs, John DeGraff, Ephraim Du- 
Bois, Stephen Davenport, Joseph Dunn, Caesar and Bettv 
DuBois, Simon Deyo, Amos Dickinson, Wilhelmus Du- 
Bois, Henry Dusenbury, John Duffieed, Lavina Davis. 

Jeremiah Ellis, Abraham Elting, Thomas Elmendorf, John 
Easterly, Reuleph Elting, William Eckirl, John Everitt, 
Derick Elting, David Elting, Jeremiah Ellis, Solomon El- 
ting, Francis Evans & Co., Job G. Elmore. 

Benjamin Furman, Charles Field, Isaac Fowler, Henry 
Frederick, Henry Frent, Thomas Fowler, Charles Frost, 
Solomon Fowler, Sarah Fowler, Martines Freer, James 
Fisk, James Fowler, jr., Zachariah Freer. 

Henry Gregory, Ferdinand Griggs, Fowler Griggs, Mil- 
ton S. Gregory, Melchior Gillis, Richard Garrison, Wm. 
Gidney, Thomas Gill & Co., Daniel Gregory, Isaac Gerow, 
William Gill, Abram Gutcher, Oliver H. Gerow, Harvey 
Griggs, John L. Gerow, Jacob Gillis, Caleb Gee, Rachael 
Ann Gregory. 

Stephen Hadley, Thaddeus Halt, James Harris, James S, 



150 Tlic History of Marlborough. 

Hallock, James Hallock, Hallock & Sherman, Nicholas Hal- 
lock, James Hull, Benjamin Harcourt, James Hait, John 
Hadley, Moses Hunt, Moses Hunt & Co., Foster Hallock, 
Frederick Hadley, jr., Purday Hadley, James Hughes, Adna 
Heaton, Amos Hait, Nathaniel Harcourt, Parmcla Holmes, 
Samuel Hughson, Gideon H. Heard, James Hull, Joseph 
Harcourt, Phillip Hasbrook, Charles Hull, Taber Hull. 
Jonas Hasbrouck, Israel Haight, Ira John Hait, Harr\' C. 
Hornbeck, Andros Hasbrouck, Davis Moag, Garrett Has- 
brouck, Alexander Hallock, Josiah Halstead, Martha Hal- 
lock, J^cob Halstead, Levi Hasbrouck, Benjamin Hulse. 

H. A. Jenkins, Albert Jenkins, Cyrus Jenkins, Cornelius 
Jenkins, James Jenkins, John Jenkins & Son, William Jud- 
son, William Jenning.-., John Johnson, Christopher Jaycox. 

Jonathan Kent, Nathaniel Kelsie, Joseph King, Henry 
King, William Ketcham, William Kelsie, John Kelsie, James 
Kent, Daniel Knapp. 

Josiah Lockwood, John LcFever, Jacober Le Fever, 
Abraham N. LeFever, Jones N. LeFever, Elisha Lester, La- 
doc Lewis, Simeon Lavvson cS: Co., Robert Lockwood, Thos. 
L l>ynch, Joseph Lester, John Lowell, Garrett LeFever, 
Nathaniel Long, Abram Lawson, George W. Lynch, Thomas 
Lawrence, John Lemunyan, A. & J. LeFever, Andrew Les- 
ter, William Legget, John J. LeFever. 

Gilbert F. Mondon, Hatfield Morgan, James Malcomb, 
Alexander Mackey, John S. Mackejs John More, Richard 
Mondon. William Mackey, Wm. More, Elijah Martin, Johile 
Miller, Clark M. Mackey, John Matthews & Co., William 
Martin, Samuel Morehouse, Hester Morgan, David Martin, 
Francis Macke}', Benjamin Mackey, Thomas Mackey, Selah 
T. Martin, William Marshall, Isaac Mowl, Hackaliah Mcr- 
ritt, Nehemiah Merritt. Phillip Mackey, Polly Mackey, 
Charles Merritt, Charles Millard, Sarles Miller, Levi Mackey. 
Drake Mackey. 

Stephen Nottingham, John Noycs, Oily Norton, John 
Norton, William Newell. 

Abel Ostrander, Reuben Ostrander, Carpenter Ostrander, 
Charles Ostrander, Jonas (Jrson. 



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Nathaniel Potter, Henry Perkins, Hannah Perkins, David 
Phillips, Anson Perkins, Hezekiah Perkins, William and 
Luther Pratt, Henry Phillips, Samuel Palmar, Henry Palmer, 
Soper Perkins, Eli Perkins, Andrew Patterson, Elijah Porter, 
Parmalee & Brown, Daniel Polhamus, Abram Palmateer, 
Sally Patroit, Francis Pell, Abram Parsol, Miss Mary 
Perkins. 

Henry Quick, Jacob Quimby, John Quimby, William 
Quig-ley, David Quigley, Amos Ouigley, Daniel Quimby, 
Lewis Quick, Rosevell Quick, Michael Quimby. 

Jacob Rowley, John Rooraback, Jacob Ransom, Uriah 
Raymond, John Rhodes, Joseph Ransom, Daniel Russell, 
Joseph Rhodes, Phillip Rhodes, Nathaniel Reeder, Smith 
Ransom, J(jhn Roe, James R. Russell, John Roe and Co., 
William Robertson, Phineas Rice, Cornwall S. Roe, Jere- 
miah Relyea, Benjamin Roberts, Richard Rhodes, Lucas 
Relyea, William Requa, Lewis Rhodes. 

Benjamin Sands, Griggs cSl Sands, Lydia Smith, David 
Sands, John Sands, Sylvester Strong, Shepherd & VVestheld, 
Ludlow N. Smith, Matthew Sammons, Samuel St. John, 
Zadock South wick, Smith & Bailey, David Soul, George 
Seaman, James Sammons, Anning Smith, William C. Smith, 
John Stephens, Jacob Smith & Son, Joshua Sutton, Heze- 
kiah Smith, David Strong, Nehemiah Stephens, Stephen 
Stillwell,* Cornelius Schoonmaker, Nancy Smith, James 
Sherman, John Sheffield, Charles Stewart, John Stewart, 
Johiel Seymore, Abraham Soper, George Saxon, Julia Ann 
Sloop, Henry Sloat, Jonathan Strickland, Anson St John, 
George Sparks, William Soper, David wSelick, Asintha Sco- 
field, Deborah Smith, Emma Sands, Judah P. Sands, Pardon 
Sherman, Henrietta Sherman, Abram Sherman. 

Peter P. Tice, Jacob Townsend, Jeremiah Tompkins, 
David Thompson, Israel Terry, Nathaniel Thorne, Peter L, 
Travis, Ira Terry, Timothy Tilson, Anthony Thompson, 
Isaac Tompkins, Marinus Terpening, Nathaniel Turner, 
Benjamin Terwilliger, Nancy Tompkins, Haddens 
Thompson. 

Isaac Underbill, Ann Underbill. 



152 The History of Marlborough. 

Cornelius Van Curen, Peter Van Orden, Abram Van Or- 
den, Peter Van Demark, Edward Van Demark, Salino 
Vradenburgh. 

Stephen Waring, David VVoolsey, Jonathan Wood, Na- 
than WoUey, Noah Woolsey, Abraham WoUey, Richard J. 
Woolsey, Henry Woolsey, Richard Taylor Woolsey, Jona- 
than Woolsey, James Waring, John Warner, James Wy- 
gant, Thomas Wygant, Jeremiah Whitney, Wm. Wiltsie «!s: 
Co., Elijah Woolsey, Mathevv Wygant, Maria Warner, Je- 
mima Wilson, Job White, Thomas Warren, Joshua Woolsey, 
Michael White, Timothy Wood, Stratton WoUey, Ichabod 
Williams, Elidia Watkins, Stephen Winn, George Worden, 
Samuel Wright, David Weed, Stephen Wardwell, William 
Wiggins, Elisc Westervelt, Derrick Wesbrouck, Jonathan 
Wesbrouck, John Wilklow, Miles^ Wells, Moses Woolsey, 
Daniel Wilklow. 

Hannah Young, Edward Young, Charles Young, John 
Young, Elias York, Robert Young, Alexander Young, 
Abraham Young. 



OLD FAMILIES. 



The VVygant Family. 

The name of Wygant is closely identified with the first 
settlement of the Town of Marlborough. The numerous 
residents of to-day who bear the name are almost all de" 
sceuded from Michael Weigand (as the name was originally 
spelled), who was one of the original owners of the German 
patent in Newburgh. He came to this country in 1708, be- 
ing one of the Palatine fugitives from Germany. Louis 
XIV of France ordered the Palatine of the Rhine to be dev- 
astated. His generals gave the inhabitants three days to 
vacate. Michael Weigand and family were thus obliged to 
lose nearly all their possessions, and come to America 
through the aid of a company. They arrived in this coun- 
try in 1708, and Michael obtained lot No. two of the German 
patent, 250 acres in extent, being now part of the city of 
Newburgh. His family was at this time composed as fol- 
lows : Michael Weigand, aged 53 ; Anna Catharine, his 
wife, 54 ; children, Anna Maria, 13; Tobias, 7 ; George, 3. 
The company which aided them in settling here furnished 
Michael with tools, viz.: "i great file, i smaller do., i hatchet, 
I jointer, besides several pieces more." 

The son Tobias grew up to be a man of infiuence among 
his neighbors. In 1727 he entered into a written contract 
with the Consistory of the Lutheran Church of New York, 
to have a preacher officiate for them in Quassaick twice a 
year. In 1725 he became a trustee of the Glebe, and served 
in that position many years. He became the founder of the 
Monroe branch of the family. Martin, son of Tobias, opened 
the principal tavern in Newburgh. He was the first to spell 
his name VVygant. A cut oi his tavern appears in Rutten- 



154 ^'^^ History of MarlbonnigJi. 

ber's "History of the County of Orange." His place was 
a great resort for the loyal during the Revolution. He kept 
tavern until his death in 1792, without issue. 

George, youngest son of Michael, had several children, of 
whom Michael (2) was the progenitor of the Marlborough 
families. He was one of the original subscribers to the 
Presbyterian church, and a trustee in 1785. He served with 
distinction in the Continental army. He had three sons, 
James, Michael (3) and John Waring. They all became 
owners of adjoining farms south of Lattintown and west of 
Marlborough village. 

James Wygant served in the war of' 1812, and was for a 
number of years trustee of the Presbyterian church. He 
married Philvena Waring, and their children were Clem- 
ence, J. Calvin, Eliza, Charlotte Ward and Jane S. 

Clemence married Sarah Young, of Palmyra, N. Y., and 
resides a mile and a half west of Marlborough, on a fine fruit 
farm. He was for several years a trustee of the Presbyterian 
church and owns a large amount of real estate in Marlbo- 
rough and vicinity. His children are J. Foster, Fannie E., 
Elmer E., Adella W., J. Calvin, Philvena and Clemence, jr. 
Eliza married J. C. DuBois, of Highland, now deceased. 
J. Calvin married Jemima Velie, and lives at Hyde Park. 
Charlotte Ward married Toomis Velie, of Middle Hope, and 
is mother to Charles E. Velie. Her husband is now dead. 
Jane S. married Smith Young, of Milton. 

Michael (3) married Althea Carpenter, and was the 
father of Edward J., Dennis M., John, Elmira, Hattie and 
Ann D. Edward J. is a prosperous fruit farmer, and raises 
an enormous amount of Concord grapes for the New York 
market. He lives where the old homestead was. It was 
burned some years ago, and many valuable old papers lost 
to history. Dennis W. is a commission merchant, and does 
business in New York city. John is dead. Hattie married 
Phineas H. Lawrence, and Ann D. married .Vsbury Wygant, 
also a descendant of Michael (i). 

Thomas Wygant was born in August, 1753, and married 
Elizabeth Bond. It is probable that he was a grandson of 



Tlie History of Marlborough. 1 5 5 

Michael (i). He died in May, 1823, leaving the following 
children: Barnard, born May 9, 1776, died Decem- 
ber, 1850. Matthew T., born October 6, 1777, died October 
23, 185 1. Rebecca, born June 29, 1779, died October 13, 
1871. Michael, born April 8, 1781, died September 13, 1782. 
William, born February 24, 1783. James, born June 29, 
1785. Anthony, born March 8, 1787. John, born April 14, 
1789. Martin, born May 27, 1791, died August 19, 1792. 
Benjamin E., born 1793, died July, 1875. David, born May 
23, 1796, died August, 1870. Austin, born December, 1798. 
Lewis, born December 27, 1800. 

The second son, Matthew T., was the father of Martin 
and Chauncey (who died without issue), and Asbur3% Hiram 
and Augustus, all of whom are now living. 

Augustus married Phebe C. Barrett, of Milton, and owns 
a fine fruit farm on the Lattintown road. Their children 
are Mari Anna, married to William Harris, and Samuel B. 

Asbury married Ann D. Wygant, and lives on Hudson 
street. He has three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary C. and 
Harriet. 

Hiram is living in Steuben county. 

J. Ward Wygant is a son of John Waring, and is a fruit 
farmer, living on Greaves' avenue. He married William 
Cosman's daughter, H. Elizabeth, and has two sons, William 
and Howard. 

Wm. W. Russell, of N. Y. city, is also a descendant of the 
John W. Wygant branch. 



Young. 



Alexander and John Young, brothers, were the first 
of that name to settle in Marlborough. They came about 
1760 or 1762, and John settled on what is now the 
Lyons' place, south of Milton village. The brothers emi- 
grated from England about 1730 or '40, and first settled in 
Long Island. John Young married Dorcas, daughter of 



I §6 The I^istory of Marlboroiigk. 

Edward Hallock. Alexander married Elizabeth Lawrence, 
of Northern Ulster. They had three sons and three daugh- 
ters, John, Lawrence, Edward, Dorcas, Eliza and Fhebe. 
The daughters all moved to the West. 

Edward, son of John Young, who was born in 1775, mar- 
ried Hannah Halsted, daughter of David Halsted, of Dutch, 
ess county. Her mother was a Cromwell, and a descendant 
of Oliver Cromwell. 

The family were members of the Society of Friends in 
those early days. Edward kept a boarding school at one? 
time, but his principal business was farming, and he may be 
called with propriety the first fruit farmer of Marlborough, 
since he raised more fruit than his neighbors, and introduced 
the famous Antwerp raspberry. . Others claim to have pro- 
pagated this berry before Edward Young, but this is not 
proven, and, anyway, to him belongs the credit of being the 
first to market this remarkable berry, and pave the way for 
the shipment of fruit of all kinds to New York cit}'. 

The first Antwerp plants were obtained in a singular way. 
A friend of Edward Young, who kept a shop in Poughkeep- 
sie about 1834, one day observed a package on his counter, 
which he was satisfied had been left by a stranger who had 
visited the shop a short time previous. He laid the pack- 
age aside for several days when, it not being called for, he 
opened it, found some young raspberry plants, and set them 
out. They yielded such splendid fruit that he sent for his 
ftiend Edward Young, and invited him to take some and 
raise them. This was in the fall of 1835. The plants were 
taken home by Ycumg, and propagated, much attention 
being devoted to their culture. He raised them first near 
Lattintown. They proved very prolific, and far ahead in 
quality of any other variety. He was laughed at for trying 
to sell them in New York city, but time has shown his fore- 
sight and wisdom. He died in 1854, and his wife in 1848. 

The sons of Edward Young were five in number. John, 
the eldest, was born in 1803, and married Martha Sands, of 
Milton. They had three daughters and one son, Phcbe, 
Hannah, Henrietta and John Hallock Yoimg, the latter a 



TJic History of Marlborough. 157 

large landholder in Milton. Martha died in 1833, and John 
married second Phcbe 8. Hallock, of Milton, and had by this 
union, two daugliters and one son. Smith. J. Hallock Young 
married a WoUey, Smith married a Wygant, Phebe married 
Justice Gerow, of Plattekill. Martha married DeWitt Vail, 
and Henrietta married a Wolley, cousin of J. H. Young's 
wife. 

David, second son of Edward, was born in iiSo8, and mar- 
ried a Carman, of Dutchess county, and had two children, 
Edward and Ann Eliza. Edward married an Adams and 
Ann Eliza a Hicks, ©avid died in 1880. 

Alexander Young was born in 18 10, and married Deborah 
Ann Harcourt, daughter of Benjamin Harcourt, and had 
two children, Marietta and William. Marietta married 
Chas. G. Velie, of Marlborough,. and resides at the southern 
line of the town. William maiTied a Flagler, of Sullivan 
county, and lives in Hampton. Alexander has been engaged 
in fruit farming all his life. He and his brother William C., 
spent their best years in developing the fruit industry. 
Many a day they went among the best class of grocers in 
New York, inducing them to handle the Antwerp berries. 
They succeeded, driving a little acrid berr}^, about half the 
size of natives, entirely out of the market. 

Edward was born in 18 14, and married Plannah Haviland, 
of White Plains, and had two daughters. She died, and he 
married second a Frost, of Dutchess county, having a son 
and daughter by this union. Tne son married an Underhill, 
of Long Island; the daughter is deceased. Edward died 
in 1878. 

William C. was born in 1815, and married Althea Har- 
court, daughter of Benjamin Harcourt, and has three chil- 
dren living, Ann Augusta, Charles and Ella. Charles 
married a Peck of Albany. William C. began businesswhen 
he was only fifteen years of age. He had a shoot near the 
present West Shore R. R. depot, and ran cord wood to the 
river. When quite young he and his brother bought the 
Cornelius Bloomer place, and did well there. Alterwards 
he bought the Hampton property in partnership with his 



I5<S Tlic History of Marlboro2ig]i. 

brother Alexander, and they were in the fruit business a 
number of years. In 1858 he sold out to Alexander, and 
boui^ht the property in Marlborough, where he now resides, 
establishing a fruit farm. In 1862 he built Young^s dock, 
commonl)' called the upper dock, giving Marlborough 
increased facilities for the shipment of fruit. The steamer 
Queen, of Wappingers Falls, was the first boat to land at 
his dock. Afterwards the Ann, the Walter Brett, and the 
])resent line, comprising the steamers Baldwin and City of 
Kingston. They carry immense quantities of fruit. In 
1884 William C. took his son Charles into partnership, under 
the style of W. C. Young cV Son, and the}- carry on a large 
coal, lumber and fertilizer business, in addition to the dock 
property and fruit farm. Through the efforts of William C. 
the cut-ofT road to the dock was built, being the onl}- road of 
record from the village to the docks, the lower end of Land- 
ing street being the property of the West Shore R. R. Co. 
John Hallock Young, of Milton, is a fruit farmer, owning 
between 300 and 400 acres of land. He also raises choice 
stock. His son Arnold is in business with him, under the 
style of J. H. Young & Son. 



Caverly. 

This name is associated with the early history of the 
town. Tlie family was numerous in Marlborough during 
and after the Revolution. John Caverl}- was a soldier in 
Capt. Belknap's Ncwburgh company in 1776, together with 
a number of others from New Marlborough. At that period 
there were four other Caverlys resident in the precinct be- 
sides John, viz. : John, jr., Philip, Joseph and William. In 
1799 we find eight Caverlys on thepathmasters lists: Philip, 
Latting, Richard, John, Joseph, Nathaniel, Peter and John 
(2(1). Philip was the grandfather of Jonathan Caverly, now 
residing west of Milton village. He carried on ship build- 
ing at the foot of Dog street, Milton. He first settled in Lattin- 



The History of Marlborough: 1 59 

town, and owned a farm there where he lived and died, as 
did also his son Lattin Caverly, being the same place that 
Jonathan Caverly owned until 1868, when he removed to 
Milton, where he now resides, his oldest son Luther P., oc- 
cupying- the old homestead at Lattintown. Jonathan was 
the son of Lattin. 

In iSio John Caverly was Town Clerk. 



"Fowler. 

The Fowlers are of English descent, and (A good lamily, 
one of the ancestors being Sir Thomas Fowler, who lived in 
1630. The oldest branches of the family in this country are 
supposed to be direct descendants of William Fowler, of 
New Haven, magistrate, who flourished there in 1637. 

The Fowlers of Marlborough and Middle Hope trace 
their descent from Joseph, a first settler at Mespat Kills, L. 
I., in 1665, supposed to be a son of William, the New Haven 
' magistrate. Joseph had a son William, and he a son 

JoJin Fowler, son of William, born at Flushing, Long Is- 
land, 1686, died at Newburgh, 1768. He had five sons — 
I, Samuel ; 2, Isaac ; 3, John ; 4, James ; 5, Nehemiah. 

Samuel, (i) born 1720, died 1789. Married Charlotte Purdy, and had 
7 children : 

1, Mary, Married George Merritt ; died 1799. 

2, Elizabeth, " Samuel Clark. 

3, Charlotte, " Daniel Gedney. 

4, Martha, " Reuben Tucker. 

5, Abigail, " Abel Flewelling. 

6, Gloriana, " John Fowler, (nephew of Samuel). 

7, Samuel, born 1757, died January 22d, 1830. 

Samuel (7) married, first, Rebecca Gedney, and had 3 children : 

1, Purdy, married Charlotte Tooker and had 6 children. 

2, Mary, " George Wandel. 

3, Charlotte. 

Samuel (7) next married Mary Clapp and had 5 children ; 
i, Henry, married Eliza Ann Tliorne. 

5, Rebecca, " George Grone. 

6, Electa. " Dr. James Smith. 

7, Samuel, " Susan Phillips. 

8, Charlotte, " Henry Cox. 



i6o The History of Marlborough. 

It is said of Sauiiicl (7) that he was ior 40 years a minister 
of the M. E. Church. His home near Newburgh was the 
cradle of Methodism in the town of Newburgh. He was 
the hrst located preacher in the First Methodist Church, of 
Newburg-h, (now Trinity M. E. Church) in 1820. 

Samuel (i) and Isaac (2) came from Rye, Westchester Co., 
and purchased part of the Harrison patent of Gomoz, in 
1747, being the lands now owned and occupied by Peter V. 
B. Fowler and M. W. DuBois, and east to the Hudson river. 

I^aac (2j, son of John, married Margaret Theal, and had one son, 
Isaac, jr., born April 3, 1746. 

Isaac, jr.— About 1770 Isaac, jr., married Martha, daughter of 
Charles Tooker, and settled at tlie Dans Kamer, where the Armstrong 
heirs now own and live. They had one child, but botli mother and 
child died of small-jiox and were buried in Marlborough in March, 
1771. He next married Glorianna Merritt, in 1773, iind had 8 chihlren 
jis follows : 

1, Caleb, born February 8th, 1775; died March 8, 182G. 

2, Martha, married Stephen Taber, died leaving no issue. 

3, Dr. Charles, lived and died in Montgomery. 

i, Gilbert, died at about 20 years of age. ' 

5, Nehemiah, born 1784, died 1853, in Plattekill, Ulster Co. 
0, David, lived and died in Gennessee, Livingston Co. 

7, Dr. Francis, lived and died in Ohio. 

8, Dr. Isaac, settled in Ohio, and was drowned in the Muskingum 

river, when quite young and unmarried. 

Isaac Fowler, jr., was a military officer during the Revo- 
lution. Several of his descendants live in Middle Hope and 
a few in Marlborough. Among them the sons of Caleb — 
Peter V. B., Jacob V. B. and Isaac Fowler. 

The third wife of Isaac Fowler, jr., was a Mrs. Owens, 
maiden name Furman. By this marriage were born Fur- 
man and Mary, who were both married in Sharon, Conn. 
Mary married a Mr. Gay. Isaac Fowler, jr., died in 1825, 
and was buried at Sharon. His widow and children removed 
to western New York, where his daugliter still lives. The 
son (lied respected and esteemed by all who knew him. 

Caleb tl), married Catharine Sebring, a grandchiughter of Isaac 
Sebring, and had 11 children. 

In November, 1804, Caleb Fowler had a gathering of his 
neighbors for a wood drawing frolic. Some of the logs 



The History of Marlboroiigli. i6i 

were cut from a tree which had killed the chopper who cut 
it down, a man named Hoffman, from Esopus. Nobody 
wanted to draw these logs, so Underhill Merritt, (father of 
Daniel Merritt, a connection of the ancestors of the Marl- 
borough Merritts) volunteered to draw the load. While 
walking beside the team he caught his feet in the lines, was 
thrown under the wheels, an arm broken in two places and 
his head crushed so that his brains bespattered the road. 
When the others came up he was quite dead. 

Caleb lived at Middle Hope. He was born Fcbriiary 8, 
1775; died March 8, 1826. The following are his children : 

I, Peter V.B., born February 20, 1800; died 187r). Tie manicd ICliza 
DiiBois, of Fishkill, and had foiu' chihheii : 1, Henry D , boni 
1827, and lives on the old homestead in [Middle Hope ; 2, Abt ,1111 
D. B., born 1830; died 1854; 3, Caleb Gilbert, born 1835 : di 'd 
1870; 4, Peter D. B., born 1844; died 1855. 

ir. Caroline, married James E. Slater and ha<l live ehildre 1; 1, Eliz- 
abeth; 2, Anna; 3, James ; 4, Sebriug; 5, Frank. 

III. Dr. Gilbert S , born 1804; died 1832. Had no issue. 

IV. Ann Catharine, born 1806 ; died 1833. No issue. 

V. Amelia, married William D. Wey^atit. and had one child, Iheodore 

Weygant, now in Portland, Oregon. 

VI. Martha B., died in infancy. 

VII. Margnret, died young. 

VIII. Matliew V. B., married Elizabeth F. Seymour, and Iuki on'e 

child, James. 

IX. Jacob V. B. settled in Newburgh, and married, lirsl, Susan 

Brinckerhoff; second, Mary J. CJnrrie. Had two cliildren: ', 
Catharine, who married Dr. Avery; 2, Helen C, unmairied, 
resident in Newburgh. 

X. Elizabeth, born 1819; died 1836. No issue. 

XI. Isaac Sabring, living in New York, married IMary L. Powell, 

granddaughter of Thomas Powell, and liad four cliihh'eii : 1. 
Robert Ludlow, a lawyer, resident in N. Y. city; 2. Thomas 
Powell, a lawyer, resident in N. Y. city; 3, J. Sebrii^g, died 
young; 4, Lulu. . 

NehemiaJi (5). He was the fifth son of Isaac, jr. He liv^d aad die I 
in the County of Ulster, near the; western end of t'.je Town of ll'aih 



1 



1 62 The History of Marlborough. 

botou.ujh. He was ix well-to-do farmer. He was married four times, 
first to Haniiali Sears; second, to Elizabetli Mackey; third, to Hannah 
Coutant, and fouttli, to Phebe Van Tassel. He had eleven children : 

1, Benjaiiiiu, born 1805. 

2, Isaac, born May G, 1808. 

3, Francis, bora January '2ii, 18l(). 
J, Samuel, born October 15, 1812. 
5, Steplien B., born July 17, 1814. 

G, Tamer Ann, born December 11), 1S16. 

7, Elizabeth, born June 17, 181i). 

8, Caroline, born December 23, 1821. 

9, Daniel Wesley, born May 11, 1825. 

10, Peter C, born December 22, 1827. 

11. Cat larine E , born February 7, 1835. 

I. Benjamin was a successful lawyer in N. Y. city. 

II. Isaac married Elizabeth Griggs, and li.ul three children: 1, Sey- 

mour, dead ; 2, Mary ; 3, Louisa, dead. 

III. Francis married twice, first, Sarah J. Owens; second, Betsey St^ 

John Had eight children : 1, Samuel, died Sept. 19, 1885; 2, 
Jann's Wni. ; 3, Gilbert; 4, Charles; 5, Mary Jane ; G, Margaret 
Ann ; 7, Hannah ; 8, Phebe. 

IV. Samuel, married Elizabeth Halstead. and had three children : 1, 

Mary Ann, now dead ; 2, Catharine Jane, now dead ; 3, Samuel N. 

V. Stephen B., married Mary Ann Presler and had eight children : 1, 

Charles; 2, George ; 3, John ; 4, William, now dead; 5, William; 
G, Mary ; 7, Ellen ; 8, Sarah Ann. 

VI. Tamer Ann, married James Underbill and had five children : 1, 

Hannah E. ; 2, Jane C. ; 3, Mary ; 4. James ; 5, Henry. 

VII. Caroline, married John R. Terwilliger, and had seven children : 1, 

Agnes ; 2, Hannah J. ; 3, Susan ; 4, Mary F. ; 5, Caroline ; G, 
John E. ; 7, Stephen B. 

VIII. Elizabeth, married James H. Ferguson, and had three children : 

1, Charles; 2, Reuben; 3, William. 

IX. Daniel Wesley, married Lucretia Terwilliger, daughter of William 

R. Terwilliger, of Plattekill ; died May 19, 1874, leaving three 
children: 1, Nehemiah ; 2, William; 3. Anna. Nehemiah is a 
successful lawyer at the city of Newburgh, N. Y., and is Justice 
of the Peace. William C. (2) is a minister of the gospel, livmg 
and preaching at Livingston, Montana. Anna is married, re- 
siding at South Norwalk, Connecticut. 

"^ X. Peter C, had six children : 1, Phebe E. ; 2, Isaiah P. ; 3, Elias 0. ; 4, 
Rachel Francis ; 5, Eugene J. ; G, Hannah Elizabeth. 



The History of Marlborough. 163 

XI. Catharine E., married John Ellison; removed many yeais a^o to 
Missouri, and died May 14, 1882, leaving four children : 1, Irene; 
2, Francis; 3, Milton J. ; 4, Estella. 

Daniel S. Fowler, of Marlborovigh, is the grandson of John 
Fowler, who settled near Cedar Hill cemetery. John Fowler 
died in 1859, le^vhig a son Daniel Fowler, who lived at 
Roseton. His other children were Anna, Glorianna, Matil- 
da, Martha, Jane, Charlotte, Henry, Samuel and William 

The children of Daniel are Daniel S., Barbary, Rachael 
A., Matilda, Orrin, Kate, Eleanor, George and Daniel S. The 
latter is the onl)^ one living in Marlborough. 

The following branch of the Fowler family settled in Marl- 
borough in 1840 : 

Jereiniali (3), of Eye, son of William (2), of Flushint"-, sottleil at Eye . 
Westchester County ; died IVGfi. He left the followin.i;- issue : 
Fourth Generation. 

1, David, born 1728 ; died 1806. 

2, Jeremiah, died 1703. 

3, William. 

4, Sarah. 

5, Elizabeth. 

6, Mary. 

7, Eeuben. 

8, Anne. 

Jeremiah (4), son of Jeremiah (3), had five children : 
Fifth Generation. 

1, Gilbert, of Harrison. 

2, David. 

3, Marcus. 

4, David. 

5, Abigail. 

Gilbert (5), son of Jeremiah (4), had seven children : 
Sixth Generation. 

1, Ann, buried at Town of Eye, Westchester Co. 

2, Woolsey, 

3, Hannah, " " " 

4, Abigail, '' " " 

5, David, died 1882 ; buried at Middle Hope. 

6, Eichard, died 188r,, at Holly, Orleans Co., N. Y. 

7, Phoebe, died 1887. 

David (6), son of Gilbert (5), was a merchant in New York, until 1840, 
when he removed to Marlborough, Ulster County. He was a farmer, 



i().l The History of Marlborough. 

and an iiilluoutial citizen. He held the oflice of Supervisor of the Town 
of Marlborou'^h. He in later years moved away and died in 1882, and 
was buried at Middle Hope. He had eight children : 

Seventh Generation. 

I. David H., of New York city. 

II. George W., of Newburgh ; has three children: 1, Lillie ; 2, Ida; 

3, Fred. 

III. Woolsey R., of Brooklyn ; has three children : 1, Grade ; 2, Marian ; 

S, Justin. 

IV. William H., a prosperous merchant of Newburgh. Has one child, 

Clarence. 

V. Sarah Ann, now dead. 

VI. rhu:>be A., wife of Charles Harcourt, deceased. 

VII. Mary E., wife of John S. Purdy. 

VIII. Emma E., now dead. 



SOPER. 



William Soper moved to Marlborough in l8io, coming 
from Shawangunk. He was in the slooping business, and 
had a store, living where Townsend's hotel is located. He 
was justice of the peace and supervisor from 1820 to 1824, 
also in '38 and '39. He transacted a great deal of legal busi- 
ness, drawing ujt papers, etc., although not a lawyer. He 
married Eleanor Dickinson, of Shawangunk. Their children 
were : Abram D. and William Soper, both of whom became 
law3'ers, one dying in Virginia, the other in Wisconsin. 
Nancy Mary, who married a Hanford, and went to New 
York, afterwards to Ohio, where she died. Emma, married 
Curtis Woolsey Northrip (father of C. S. Northrip). Char- 
lotte, married Nathaniel Clark, lived in Milton, and is buried 
there. 

Abram D. Soper was postmaster in Milton in 1830. Wm. 
Soper also held the office, and when politics changed turned 
it over to his sister, Nancy Soj)er. The ofihce was then lo- 
cated where E. W. Pitcher now has a flower house. 



The History of Marlborough. 165 

Following is a copy of the commission granted William 
Soper as a coroner for Orange County, now in the posses- 
sion of C. S. Northrip, of Milton, his grandson : 

"The people of the State of New York, by the Grace of 
God free and independent : To all to whom these Presents 
shall come, greeting. Know ye, that we have constituted 
and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and ap- 
point William Soper, gentleman, to be a Coroner of our 
County of Orange, with full power unto him to use, execute 
and enjoy all and singular the power, jurisdictions and au- 
thorities to the said office belonging or appertaining. To 
have and to hold the said office of Coroner for our said 
County of Orange, together with the Fees, Profits and Ad- 
vantages to the same belonging, unto him the said William 
Soper, for and during the term of one whole year, from the 
date hereof. 

"In testimony whereof, we have caused these our letters 
to be made patent, and the great seal of our said State to be 
hereunto affixed. Witness, our truly and well-beloved John 
Jay, Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Com- 
mander-in-Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy 
of the same, by and with the advice and consent of our 
Counsel of Appointment, at our city of iVlbany, the seventh 
day of April, in the year of our. Lord One Thousand Seven 
Hundred and Ninety-Eight, and in the Twenty-second year 
of our Independence. 

"Passed the Secretary of State's office, the 20th day of 

April, 1798. 

JyVSPER Hopper, D. Sec'y." 

Attached is a great wax seal, three and a halt inches in 
diameter, and half an inch thick, with a rising sun depicted 
in the centre, the word "Excelsior" underneath, and "The 
Great Seal of the State of New York" carved above. 



Northrip. 
Zephaniah NiMlhrip was a nephew of Noah Woolsey, an 



li 



1 66 The History of Marlboroug/i. 

early settler in Milton, and came from New jersey when a 
lad, and was brought up by his uncle. Me married and had 
two children : Rebecca, who married Eleazer Gedncy, of 
Orange County, and Curtis VVoolsey Northrip, who was 
born in the house where Benjamin Allen lives, near C. Meech 
Woolsey's. He farmed in his 3'ounger day, and then went 
to New York city for nineteen years, returning to Milton in 
1846, and taking up farming again. 

C. vS. Northrip, son of Curtis Woolsey Northrip and Em- 
ma Soper, resides about one mile south of Milton village, 
and follows fruit farming. He served one term as justice of 
the peace, and is a trustee of the Presbyterian church. 



, Harcourt. 

The Harcourt family is said to have been originally a 
Norman family, and under the name of "de Harcourt" to 
have entered England with the victorious cohorts of William 
the Conqueror. Since that time the family has been an in- 
fluential and prominent one in many parts of England, and 
is prominently represented to-day in Oxfordshire and Berk- 
shire. 

Richard Harcourt is believed to have been the first of the 
family to settle in this country, and first located at Oyster 
Bay, Long Island. About the year 1754 he removed to 
Marlborough, where he purchased a tract of land compris- 
ing about one thousand acres, lying between the villages of 
Marlborough and Milton, and extending west to the Lattin- 
town road. His homestead was where Jesse Lyons now re- 
sides. He was commissioned "One of Her Majesty's Jus- 
tices for the Colony of New York." He occujiied a promi- 
nent |)lace in the town and drew many of the early deeds 
and ])a])ers for his section. His wife was Mercy Latting, 
and his children were Nathaniel, Hannah, Esther, Ann, John 
and Mercy. His remains were interred in the burying 
ground at Lattintown. Nathaniel, the eldest son of Richard, 
was born in 1748, and by law of primogeniture the estate of 



The History of Marlborough. 167 

his father descended to him alone. The latter, however, he 
voluntarily divided with his brother John, and both re- 
mained in town. Nathaniel married Mary, daughter of 
Joseph Carpenter, one of the first settlers of the town. He 
died June 13, 1823, and his wife May 3, 1839, ^ged 88 )'ears. 
They had children : Sarah, Mary Deborah, Richard Joseph, 
Benjamin, Nathaniel and Mercy. Mary became the wife of 
David Baker, of Saratoga County ; Deborah married John 
Pinkney, of Dutchess County ; and Mercy married Cornelius 
DuBois, of Marlborough. All of the sons settled in town 
and died there. Nathaniel Harcourt, though not a public 
man, wielded a wide influence in the town, and held a num- 
ber of precinct and tftwn offices. He was notoriously loyal 
to the patriot cause during the trying days of the Revolu- 
tion, and contributed liberally to the support and encourage- 
ment of the Continental army, in which, though of weak 
condition, he performed some active service at West Point. 
He was bitterly opposed to the Tories of his section, held 
no part nor lot with them, and was possessed of great firm- 
ness of character. He was strictly ' fair in all his dealings, 
honest and conscientious, and died in 1823. 

Benjamin Harcourt, son of Nathaniel Harcourt, was born 
in Marlborough on Nov. 3, 1788, and- passed the earlier 
years of his life upon his father's farm. His educational ad- 
vantages were such as the district schools of his locality af- 
forded. Upon attaining manhood he engaged in agricul- 
tural pursuits upon a portion of his father's farm. In 
1828 he purchased a farm of 407^ acres in Lattintown, and 
occupied it until his death, on Dec. 14th, 1866. Mr. Har- 
court, aside from his farming pursuits, was an influential 
man in the town and county, and engaged extensively in 
other business enterprises. In politics he was a Democrat, 
and held various offices of trust and responsibility. He was 
justice of the peace for several years, supervisor of the Town 
of Marlborough in 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829 and 183 1, and in No- 
vember, 1 83 1, was elected sheriff of Ulster County, serving 
his full term. While a member of the Board of Supervisors 
he purchased the ground for the county poor house, and 



1 68 The History of Marlborough. 

furnished it throughout. He dealt extensively in real estate, 
was drover and cattle dealer, had an interest in the trans- 
portation business on the Hudson, and passed an active, 
earnest and industrious life, enjoying- meanwhile the respect 
and esteem of all with whom he came in contact. He was 
one of the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Lattintown, and a regular attendant of the Presbyterian 
Church of Marlborough. When twenty-one years of age 
Benjamin Harcourt was united in marriage to Eleanor, 
daughter of Matthew Wygant, of Marlborough, who died 
Feb. 1 8, 1862, and by whom he had seven children, Sarah, 
Deborah, James Clinton, Eliza, Charles A., Althea and Eli. 

Sarah lived in Hampton, Orange County. Deborah mar- 
ried Alexander Young, and had two children, William and 
Marietta Y., who married Chas. G. Velic. 

James Clinton was a resident of Marlborough, formerly 
engaged in farming, and has filled the offices of assessor, 
school commissioner and town clerk, and was supervisor of 
the town in 1854, T863 and 1880. For the last thirteen years 
of his life he was engaged in the freighting business with 
William C. Young, at the upper landing. He died Sept. 22, 
1882. His wife was Helen, daughter of Abraham Wolley, 
of Lattintown, who died on March 8th, 1859. 

Eliza E. married first Lewis Griggs, second Henry C. 
Griggs, and lives in Washingtonville. She had one son by 
her first marriage, James C. Griggs, who keeps the Morgan 
House, Poughkeepsie. By the second marriage was born 
Etta, who married and settled in Washingtonville. 

Charles A. was a farmer in early life. In 1850 he married 
a daughter of David Fowler. He was afterwards in the 
shoe business in Newburgh, with David Bradley, and by 
himself. In 1868 he engaged in the furniture business, be- 
coming a member of the firm of Peck, Van Dalfsen & Co., of 
Newburgh, then hjcated near the corner of Water and Third 
streets. For mcjre than twenty years he was a prominent 
business man in that city. At one time he represented the 
Fourth Ward in the Common Council, and occupied other 
responsible positions. He was taken sick with a tumor 



TJie History of Marlborough. 1 69 

in the stomach in 1885, and died in March, 1887, in Pough, 
keepsie, and lies buried in Cedar Hill cemetery, in Middle 
Hope. 

Eli is a farmer and fruit grower in Marlborough, Aside 
from his farming pursuits he has held minor offices of trust 
and responsibility. He taught school in 1853, in district 
No. 8 for one year, and is now district clerk, having held the 
office for twenty-three years in succession. He has been 
commissioner of highways of the town for six years, is one 
of the trustees of the Presbyterian Church, and clerk of the 
present board. When twenty-four years of age he was mar- 
ried to Mahala, daughter of William Cosman, of the town of 
Newburgh, Orange Co., by whom he had three children, 
Annie, Benjamin and Crawford. Annie is the wife of Eu- 
gene, son of George W. Lawson. Benjamin married Carrie, 
daughter of William J. Purdy. Crawford married Hattie» 
daughter of George Gardner, of Plattekill. 



Theodore Hanford 

Was born ui Marlborough, Dec. 6th, 1823, his boyhood 
being spent on the farm of his father. At the age of 16 he 
went to Newburgh, with Powell & Son, to learn the cabinet 
making trade, and while there he united with the Reformed 
Church. Having completed his trade, he went to New- 
York city and worked at it until the gold fever partially de- 
veloped itself in 1849, when 1^*-* started for the gold helds. 
Arriving at San Francisco he traveled for the mines, and at 
once commenced active operations. Being successful, he 
soon had an interest in several of them. He remained in the 
gold district four years, experiencing all the incidents of 
miners' life from handling the pick to the position of over- 
seer and superintendent of several mines. Having com- 
pleted his work in California he went to Australia. There 
he delved in the soil for two years more, with his usual suc- 
cess, and at the end of that time he started for his native 
home. 



I/O The 1 1 is! cry of JMarlboroiigh. 

W<s.\\\v^ secured ample means to tiavel he now visited 
nearly all parts of the j^lobe that are interesting to an in- 
quisitive traveler, and making the entire circuit of the world, 
he returned to New York in March, 1856. 

Using his own words, his wild oats were sown, and it was 
time to turn his thoughts on a future hcjme. To this end he 
formed the acquaintance of Catharine, the daughter of John 
Howell, of Newlourgh. This friendship ripened int(j an en- 
gagement of marriage, which took place Sept. 3, 1856. Soon 
after he entered into [)artnership in the commission busi- 
ness under the firm name of L. Thorn & Co., where he rep- 
re.-^ented the company until 1875, when he withdrew from 
the partnership. 

In November, 1881, he was called to join the silent ma- 
jority. He died respected by all who knew him. 



Bloomer. 

Thomas D. Bloomer was a grandson ol William Bloomer, 
who resided on the Dans Kamer tarni belore and during the 
Revolution. William Bloomer married Rachel Cosman, by 
whom he had seven children. The eldest, John, became a 
blacksmith and a farmer, and married Martha Denton, of 
Fostertown, and had three children : William, Thomas D. 
and Sarah. William went to Seneca Co., where he died in 
1841. Sarah married Samuel Halsey, and died in 1855. 
Samuel D. died on his farm at Lattintown, Jidv 31. 1887, be- 
ing eighly-two years kA age. Until sixteen years old he re- 
sided on his father's larm, but at that peiiod engaged as aj)- 
prentice to Oliver Cromwell, a tanner ol Canterbur}', Orange 
County. Having finished his apprenticeship at twent\-one 
years, he returned to (arming, joining his lather in the j)ur- 
chase of the Dans Kamer laiin, and alterwards the "old 
Bloomer larm," just south ol Marlboiough. In 1839 he P^'*"' 
chased a farm at Lattintown of William D. Wygant, the 
property being the old Lattin homestead, after which family 
the village was named. There he spent the remainder of 
his life. 



The Ihsiory of Ktariborong)L. 17I 

November ih, 1835, Thomas D. Bloomer was united in 
marriage with Mary, daughter ol Cornelius DuBois. They 
had six children, four of whom are living: John, Cornelius 
and William, fruit farmers, and Mary, wife of Charles A. 
Wolley. 

Thomas D. Bloomer was a active Presb3'terian, and an of- 
ficer of that church for fifty years. In 1B56 he served the 
town as supervisor. He was a man widely known and re- 
spected. 

William Bloomer was also supervisor of the town tor 
several terms. Cornelius is an officer of the Presbyterian 
Church. 



The Woolsi^v Family. 

William and John VVoolsey were brought up in Dutchess 
County, but came to Marlborough some time prior to 1760. 
John Woolsey's name appears among the contributors to the 
lund raised in 1763 to build the Presbyterian Church in 
Marlborough. William Woolsey was an ensign in the Con- 
tinental arm3^ He left a son, Richard I., who married 
Chlorine Woolsey, his cousin. Their children were David, 
Thomas and John, who all lived and died in this town. 
David married Lucy T. Meech, of Westfield, Mass. Their 
children were George, William, Richard, C. Meech, Mary 
and Ellen. William and Richard lived in Milton, but are 
now dead. Mary married John Atkins, and went to Corn- 
wall, where she died. Ellen is the wife of Ira Wood, and 
lives in Cornwall. C. Meech is a lawyer, living in Milton. 
He has been honored with many public positions, from 
justice of the peace to the state legislature. At present he 
represents the town in the Board of Supervisors. 

Richard Woolsey, of Marlborough, ancestor of Peter V. 
L. Purdy, John Ed. Woolsey, Mrs. John Lawson and others, 
is thought to have been a brother or cousin of William and 
John Woolsey. 

William Woolsey (2) married a cousin. Chlorine Wool- 



172 The History of Marlborough. 

sey, and settled in ferse}' City, and had children — David, 
Thomas, John and Electa. 



PURDV, 



.Vmons^ the early families who came to Marlborough none 
perhaps did more to interest and urge the speedy settlement 
ot the town than the Purdys. The Purdy family, according 
to a paitialh' written genealogy, came from Yorkshire, Eng- 
land, and Francis Purdy was the first to come to this coun- 
try. He settled in Fairfield, Conn., and died there in 1658. 

John l^irdy was the first of the famil}' born in this vicinity. 
He was the second son of Joseph and grandson of Francis, 
of h^airficld. Fie owned land and lived until death at a 
point near the village of Tarry town, N. Y. Five children 
were born to him. three boys and two girls. The boys, 
Joseph, Elishaand Nathaniel, occupied the land set aside for 
them by their father in Marlborough, and grew up to be 
men of acknowledged ability. 

From the genealogy of the famil}- it appears that Elisha 
Purdy married Mehitable Smith, a daughter of Rev. John 
vSmith. Nine children were born to him as follows: John S., 
Thomas, James, Hattie, Challie, Elizabeth, Win^ield, Nancy 
and Diner. Elisha lived for a time in Middle Hope, Orange 
County, but soon returned to his early home, locating near 
the present village of Marlborough. 

Of the immediate descendants of John S. Purdy (who was 
the eldest son of Elisha), Daniel D. Purdy, who occupies a 
handsome cottage on Grand street, in the village of Marl, 
borough, is the onl}* survivor. 



James S. Knapp, M. D. 

A pi ominent physician and a well known and respected 
citizen of lower Ulster for many years was Doctor Knapp, 
a native of Orange County, bom May 17, 1824, He pursued 



The History of Marlborough. 173 

the study of medicine under Dr. Houghton, of St. Andrews, 
afterwards graduating and receiving his diploma from the 
medical college of Castleton, Vermont, one of the oldest in- 
stitutions of the kind in this country. He commenced the 
practice of the profession in 1846, in the village of Milton, 
and some six )^ears thereafter removed to the village of 
Marlborough, where he soon attained a high position as a 
physician. He died Sept. 23d, 1879, after a continuous prac- 
tice in this town of more than thirty-three years. He was a 
member of the Episcopal Church, and for many years was 
an officer of Chri-t church, of the village of Marlborough. 
Dr. Knapp also served a term as justice of the peaco of this 
town, and was for a time the U. S. Loan Commissioner. 

Of dignified deportment, hospitable and social disposition, 
he had many friends. To them and his patients his death 
was indeed a loss. In 1850 Dr. Knapp married Eliza Roe, 
o[ Milton, who survives him, as do their four children, three 
daughters and one son. A kind husband and father, and a 
domestic man in the true acceptation of the word, his chief 
delight centered in his family. 



LOCKWOOD. 

Major Lewis DuBois had a daughter named Margaret, 
who married Daniel Lock wood about 1775. He came here 
from Connecticut. She was widowed and married again to 
Gen. Nathaniel DuBois, (a distant relative) residing in New- 
burgh. By her first marriage there were four sons, Lewis, 
Daniel, Eli T. and Charles Lockwood. Eli T. Lockwood, 
sr., was born April 14, 1800, and married Ann Eliza DuBois, 
Jan. 4th, 1826. By this union eight children were born: 
Margaret, Daniel, Eli T., jr., Ann Eliza; Charles, Sarah Jane, 
Eugene V. and DuBois. Of these three are now living in 
Marlborough : Sarah J., married to Francis T. Anderson, 
and Eli T. Lockwood, living on Hudson street. Mrs. Ann 
Eliza Butterworth, resides in Brooklyn, and Chas. W. 
Lockwood in Orange County. Eli T. Lockwood, sr., was 



tf4 The History of Marlborough. 

born in the family homestead, on South street, in 1800. He 
followed farming, and died in 1848. His son, the present 
Eli T. Lockwood, was for many years a steamboat engineer, 
but now resides in the handsome residence on the Terrace, 
built by him in 1885. His children are Mary Ella, married 
to Thomas Russell, proprietor of the large bookbinding es- 
tablishment in New Chamber street, New York, and Daniel 
Lockwood, who lixes on the old homestead. 



Sands. 



The first settler of this name in Marlborough was Benja- 
min Sands, who came here some time between 1760 and 
1770, from Dutchess Count}'. He was related to Samuel 
Sands, who was clerk of the Precinct of Newburgh in 1763. 
He bought about one thowsand acres of land, (jf the Hallock 
family, located where the village of Milton now is. He re- 
sided north of where the Presbyterian Church now stands, 
and the old house is still in existence, being occupied by 
Mrs. Conklin. Benjamin married Amy Hallock, daughter 
of Edward Hallock, of Milton, and they were blessed with a 
numerous pnjgeny as follows : 

I. David Sands, married first a Hall, aunt of Hon. L. Harrison Smith, 

of Milton ; second, Sallie M. Booth, of Campbell Hall, Orange 
County ; and third, a Townsend, a glass manufacturer, still 
living, at an advanced age, in Philadelphia. Rachel also died 
there a few years ago. 

II. Sarah, lost at sea. 

III. Phebe, married Ebenezer Bull, of Hamptonbui'gh. 

IV. Esther, married Daniel Erl, of Turners' Station, Orange County. 

V. Rachel, who married first, a Barker, of Poughkeepsie, and as 

Rachel Barker became a famous Hicksite preacher. She 
married second a Dr. Moore, of Philadelphia. 

VI. Enuiia, married first, Dr. Wm. Oedney, of Milton; second, Na- 

thaniel Harcourt, of Marlborough. She is still living in 
Poughkeepsie. 

The children of David Sands by his first marriage were ; 



The History of Marlborough, 175 

I. Oliver H., died in tlie employ of tlie Government Navy Yard, Brook- 

lyn, where he was superintendent of the paint department. 

II. Catljarine, married first, James Stewart; seeond, Elliot Brock- 

way, a pioneer settler of Port Huron, Mich., deceased in 1854. 

III. Judah P., died in New York city about twenty years ago. 
The children of David Sands by his second wife were : 

IV. Georye W., married Sarah, daughter of Robert S. Lockwood, of 

3Iarlborough, and died in 1863. 

V. Matilda B., died in Milton in 1883, single. 

VI llaehael B., married Oscar Clark, in Milton ; died in 1886. 

VII. Walter Sands, married first ; Sarah, daughter of Richard DuBois, 

second, , living in Poughkeepsie. 

VIII. David Sands, married Phebe, daughter of John Lawson, and re- 

sides on North Main street, Marlborough. 

IX. Sarah A., single, died in Marlborough in 1886. 

X. Alfred B., went toStaten Island in 1859, to collect $300, and never 

was heard of afterwards. 

XI. R. Montgomery, lives at Maiden Rock, Wis. 

XII. Horace B., still living. 

David Sands, sr., lived in the old house on Sands' dock, 
Milton, -which is still standing. His land extended to within 
about 15 feet of where the West Shore R. R. depot now 
stands. He was a ship carpenter, kept a store, and ran a 
sloop to New York. He was a busy man, and his ledgers, 
now in the possession of his son, David Sands, jr., show that 
he had dealings with nearly all the residents in the neigh- 
borhood in the early part of the present century. 

David Sands, jr., was born in 1827, and has spent the 
greater part of his life in this town. He has followed fruit 
farming, and was a school teacher in his younger days. For 
a number of years he administered the law in the justice's 
court in Marlborough, earning the title of 'Squire Sands. 

In 1886 he bought the property on North Main street, 
wdiere he now resides, and remodeled it into the present 
commodious dwelling. He traces his descent on his moth- 



176 TJic History of Marlborough. 

er's side to Sarah Wells, who, when a girl of sixteen years, 
became the hrst settler of Hamptonburgh. She married 
Wm. Bull, ancestor of the wife of David Sands, sr. 



Bingham. 

Thomas D. Bingham came from Wetchester County, and 
settled in Marlborough several years before the dawn of the 
present century. At first he lived with Dr. Fowler. In 
1793 he married Elizabeth Purdy, and settled on the place 
now owned by Enos Reynolds, on what is now Bingham 
street, deriving its name from him. He began his married 
life in a log house about one hundred yards west of the 
house in which Reynolds now lives. The present house 
was built by him in 1795 and '6, and is still in good condition. 
He had three sons and one daughter. John was born in 
September, 1795. The others were David, Finetta and 
Charles. All three of the sons died in 1825 of typhus fever- 

Finetta married Jeremiah Clark, and died in Marlborough, 
December 6, 1886, the 85th anniversary of her birth. 

John married Elizabeth Bloomer, and died when about 
thirty years old, leaving an infant son, Charles E. Bingham, 
now an elder of the Presbyterian church, and father of John 
VV., Clarence and Charles E. John W. is a nurseryman ; 
Clarence married Melissa Kniffin, daughter of Samuel H. 
KnitiHii ; Charles E. removed to Livingston Manor, Sullivan 
County, where he is engaged in the jewelry business. 

David lived in Marlborougli and had three sons, Thomas, 
Jeremiah and Daniel. Thomas is living west of Newburgh. 
He has a son. John F. Bingham, a resident of Delaware, and 
prominent in railroad affairs. 



John Joseph Alexis Robert. 

;man with the long name was res 
borough from 1798 to 1813, when he returned to his native 



This gentleman with the long name was resident in Marl- 



The History of Marlborough. 177 

country, France. He is spoken of in the ''History of Ulster 
County" as a genuine aristocrat. The title is hardly a cor- 
rect one. He was a quiet, well-behaved gentleman of some 
means, who owned several slaves and resided where Isaac 
Hall now lives, keping a store, and running a nursery. He 
was short and pussy in appearance, and well liked by his 
neighbors. He drove a handsome span of brown horses. 
In his house was a big old-fashioned parlor, where he often 
entertained company. He had a large swmgmg apparatus 
to keep the flies off his dinner table. lu 1813 he sold his 
farm here and gave his slaves their liberty. To one of them 
named Figaro he gave five acres of ground, stipulating that 
he shouldv pay for it in chickens and turkeys. The fowls 
wei'e never called for. The house where Figaro lived still 
stands, being occupied by Philip DuBois. Robert then re- 
turned to France, where he had a wife living. From an ad- 
vertisement of Robert's in the Political Index of Newburgh, 
dated Sept. 17, 18 10, he states that he had fourteen years 
experience in the nursery business, and had discovered that 
it was a great mistake to transplant trees in the spring, the 
proper time being from the 15th to the 30th of November. 



Buckley. 

The Buckley, or Bulkley (sometimes spelled Bulkiley) 
family are of ancient origin, settled in Cheshire in the early 
part of the twelfth century. They afterwards scattered far 
and wide, some settled in the Isle of Anglesea, some in Ire- 
land, Haughton in Bedfordshire, Cheadle and other parts 
of England. The Rev. Peter Bulkley, who came to America, 
was a descendant from the Haughton branch. He was a 
clergyman of the Church of England, rector of Odell, in 
Bedfordshire, and was silenced by Arch-Bishop Laud for 
non-conformity, whereupon, says Cotton Mather, "he sold a 
goodly heritage and came to America in 1635." About the 
same time his brother Nathaniel, in company with a large 



178 TJie History of Marlborough. 

iuimber ot non-conformists, emigrated to Holland to escape 
the persecution they were subjected to under the rigorous 
administration of Arch-Bishop Laud. 

John Buckley, a descendant of Nathaniel, was born in 
Stuttgart, in the kingdom of Wurtenberg, in 1755, where he 
received a liberal education, and in compliance with an 
old law of the kingdom, which compelled every young man 
to learn some mechanical trade, he chose that of a carpenter 
and builder. He came to America with Gen. Reidesel, and 
landed in Quebec June i, 1776, accompanying him all through 
Gen. Burgoyne's campaign, which ended in the surrendcr 
of his army at Saratoga, October 17, 1777. They were all 
sent prisoners of war to Boston. Soon after he left the 
army he commenced working at his trade in Tewkesbury and 
Lowell; in 1780 he settled in JafTrey, New Hampshire, 
where he purchased a farm; in 1785 married Margaret 
Dunlop, eldest daughter of Hugh Dunlop, one of the earl}' 
settlers of New Hampshire, by whom he had five sons, all 
born in Jaffrey : John, James, Samuel, Frederick and Wil- 
liam. All settled in Jefferson Co., N. Y., except Frederick, 
who went South. John was born in 1786, and worked with 
his father, a carpenter and builder, who was engaged in build- 
ing in Boston and Cambridge. He left his father's employ in 
1805 and went to Providence, where he learned the trade of 
millright and machinist, and was for several years in the 
employ of Brown & Amory and Samuel Slater, who is justly 
called the father of American manufacturers. In 1809 the 
Pleasant Valley (Dutchess Co.) Manufacturing Co. was 
chartered and he was engaged by the company to superin- 
tend the construction of their great water wheel and running 
gear. In idii the Cornwall cotton factory was incorporated 
and employed him to superintend the construction of their 
machinery. He remained in their employ until 181 5, when 
he purchased a carding and spinning mill and a small farm 
in Marlborough. The mill he converted into a woolen fac- 
tory, making broadcloth and satinets. In 1855 he changed 
his factory into a cotton mill, and continued the business 
until the commencement of the civil war in i86i, when he 



TJie History of Marlborough. 179 

ceased manufacturing and retired from active business. He 
died at Marlborough June i, 1874, aged 84 years. 

In January, 1814, he married Phebe, youngest daughter of 
James Thorne, by whom he had six childi-en : John, born Oct. 
23, 1814; Thomas Townsend, born July ir, 1817 ; Margaret, 
born March 21, 1819, died March 13, 1872; William, born 
Sept. 7, 1821 ; Mercy Townsend, and James, who died in 
infancy. 

Thomas Townsend Buckley died in Brooklyn, February 
6, 1887, in his 70th year. He was a prominent merchant in 
New York city for many years. He began business at the 
age of fourteen in a store in Marlborough. A little later he 
went to Newburgh as clerk, and when eighteen years old 
went to New York city and engaged in the wholesale dry 
goods business. In the course of a few years he became 
largely interested in the importing and jobbing trade. In 
1874 he retired from active business, spending his summers 
at Marlborough and his winters in Brooklyn. He married 
Amelia A., daughter of William R. Thompson, of New 
York. In his younger days he traveled in the West, 
becoming laiusuall); well informed on a great variety of 
topics. He held man}- important positions during his career, 
having been vice-president of t ^.c Bank of the Republic, re- 
ceiver of the Atlantic & Pacific R. R. Co., director of the 
Metropolitan Gas Co., and Home Insurance Co. He was 
one of the executive committee of the great Sanitary Fair of 
1864, and was a member and patron of historical and art 
societies. At his death the New York papers all devoted 
considerable space to his obituary. His remains lie interred 
in Greenwood cemetery. 



Merritt. 

The Marlborough branch of the Merritt family are de- 
scendants of George Merritt, who was born in 1702, and 
came to Newburgh in 1747, dying there Feb. 2, 1750. He 



I So The History of Marlborough. 

u'as married to Glorianna Purdy, who died Sept. 13, 1765. 
Their children were George (2), Samuel, Caleb, Gabriel, 
Josiah, Humphre}', Elizabeth, Jane, Glorianna, 

Three of these sons subsequently' settled in Marlborough 
about 1775. One of them lived on the farm which Chas. G. 
Velie now owns, and another on the Carpenter farm, where 
Isaac Hall now lives, and which at one time belonged to J. 
J. E. Robert, the slave holder. Josiah was the third brother, 
and the only one who has descendants living in the town. 
He settled on the place now owned by Thomas Buckle}', 
and engaged in farming. He was a man of sterling qualities^ 
and a hard worker. He married twice, first to Annie Purdy, 
by whom he had five children, Gabriel, Josiah, Nancy, Al- 
thea and Esther Ann. His second wife was Rachel Sher- 
wood, and their children were David, Joseph and Phebe. 
He had a slave named Priscilla, who married a slave called 
Peter Milden. Figaro Milden was born of them, and he and 
his mother received their liberty from Josiah at his death. 

Gabriel Merritt was born in 1777, and served in the war 
with Great Britain in 1812 and 18 14. He held several of- 
fices in the town, being at one time a constable, a justice of 
the peace for 20 years, and poorm:ister for some years. He 
married Rebecca Whitmore, from Westchester county. His 
death took place in 1853. 

Their family was large. Eliza died young. Rachel, mar- 
ried Wm. Kelly, and is now living in Marlborough. Her 
children are Elizabeth, Marcus D., the builder, and Harriet 
Amelia, married J. H. Elting, of Highland, now deceased. 
Esther Ann, married Wm. P. Flewelling, of St. John, N. B. 
James D., is a truit farmer, now living in Marlborough, mar- 
ried Delia Moore, of N. Y. city. His family are Mar) E., 
who married George Clarke, and resides in Milton ; Susan 
R., living in Marlborough ; Ida S., living in town ; William H., 
a civil engineer, living in Arizona; Robert W., who has a 
fruit farm adjoining his father's. Edward A., married Eme- 
line Knifihn, of Marlborough ; Rebecca Jane, died a few 
years since. Mary died young. Gabriel, jr., married Mary 
Flewelling, and settled in St. John, N. B. Charles W., mar- 
ried Mary Lane, of New York. 



The History of Marlborough. 1 8 1 

Nancy, the second child of, Josiah Merritt, married Mo- 
bury Carpenter (see Carpenter.) Esther married Zephaniah 
Northrip. She was grandmother to Henry Northrip, of 
Orange Co., Zephaniah, of Newburgh, and Justice C. S. 
Northrip, of Milton. Althea married John Brower, father 
of Miss Charlotte A. Brower, of Marlborough. David I., 
married Sally Cropsey. Both are now deceased. Phebe 
married Andrew Cropsey. Joseph married a Miss Wood, 
of Orange county. 

Josiah married Betsy Demott, and settled north of Mil- 
ton nine years afterwards. They left several children, 
among them, John Merritt, living in New Paltz, a younger 
son lives in Catskill, and a daughter who married John 
Yelvington, of Poughkeepsie. 

Edward A. Merritt, son of Gabriel and grandson of Josiah, 
is still living in Marlborough at the age of 69 )^ears. He 
was for many years a carpenter and builder, having led a 
busy life. He now resides on West street, Marlborough. 

John C. Merritt, eldest son of Edward A., keep^ a large 
dry goods, grocery and general store on Western avenue. 
He Avas postmaster for ten years, takes a lively interest in 
local politics, and is a prominent Republican. 

Charles E. Merritt, the second son, is treasurer and assist- 
ant superintendent of the Mackey-Bennett Cable Co., in New 
York city. The other children are Henry, who died three 
years ago, at Whitestone, L. I., where he was engaged in 
business. P. Elting, associated with his brother John C. in the 
mercantile business. Marcus D., who is in the hardware 
business in San Francisco ; Lizzie A. married Frank Conk- 
lin, son of James Conklin, of Middle Hope. She lives in 
Minneapolis. Mary K., and Frank E., who is in the com- 
mission business in New York city. 



Brower. 

Charles N. Brower came from Poughkeepsie about 1830, 
and bought the Lymasen farm, near Lattintown, which he 



1 82 TJie History of MarlhorougJi. 

aiterwards sold to Levi Crosby, blacksmith, moving to Main 
street, Marlborough, where he built two houses, now the 
property of Charles D. Brower. He was a descendant of 
Mrs. Annike Jans, claimed to be the rightful owner of Trinity 
church property, St. John's park, and other valuable prop- 
erty in New York city. He married Mary Doty, of Massa- 
chusetts, a lineal descendant of Capt. John Ward, of the 
Mayflower. Their children were Jane E., Charles D., Sarah 
Ann (widow of Cornelius Valentine), James I., and Rosetta, 
wife of W. L. Parmalee. Jane E; married a Doty, and 
moved to Croton, died in New Haven, Conn., and is buried 
in the old Presbyterian cemetery in Marlborough. Charles 
D. is a fruit grower, living on the corner of West and Bloom 
streets. James I. lives in Kingston. 



Clark. 



Jeremiah Clark was a man of much force, who left a strong 
imprint on the locality where he lived and died. He was a 
Presbyterian in religion, a Democrat in politics, a shrewd 
judge of men and means, and a hospitable and popular man. 
He represented the Second Ulster District in the State 
Legislature in i860. lie was the father of Samuel C, 
Charles B., William S., Augustus G., Elizabeth A., Jeremiah 
John F. and Julia Clark. 

George S. Clark, of Milton, belongs to another family, be- 
ing the son of J. Oscar and grandson of Nathaniel Clark, 
who came from Cornwall in 1817, and purchased the old 
homestead, on the Farmers' turnpike, still in the possession 
of the family. 



QUIMBY. 



The Quimbys were among the early settlers of Marlbo- 
rough. Levi Quimby and his sons James and Isaac came 
here before the Revolution. Also Zadok and EnosOuimby. 



The History of Marlborough. 183 

They settled in the western part of the town, where Samuel 
L. and John Quimby now own. The present residents of 
the name are descended from James, who left a son James, 
father to Samuel L. and John. Samuel L. was supervisor 
of the town in 1885, is an ardent Democrat and owns a large 
fruit farm. 



COLMAN. 



One of Milton's most public-spirited men was Samuel 
Colman. He started the wheelbarrow factory there in 1844, 
and tor many years was prominently identified with every 
good work and enterprise in the locality. He was an elder 
in the Presbyterian Church, and a strong advocate of the 
temperance cause, ever ready to lift his voice against the 
traffic, and assist in elevating his fellow men. On one oc- 
casion he bought all the liquor there was in the tavern at 
the dock, and poured it into the street. His son, S. O. F. 
Colman, was associated with his father in the wheelbarrow 
manufactory, and in 1855 married Anna M. Newman. In 
1875 S. O. F. Colman withdrew from the factory, and went 
to Poughkeepsie, engaging in the hardware business. In 
1879 he removed with his family to Syracuse. His eldest 
son died in 1883, another son is married and living in Chicago. 
He has also a daughter, resident in Syracuse. 



Belly. 



Following is the chronological table of this old family 
which is connected with the early history of the town : 

John Belly was born in the year of our Lord 1753, November the '29th, 
died 12th of April, 1824. 

Magdalane Coutant, his wife, was born March the 5th, 1755 ; died Feb- 
ruary 8th, 1845. 

Elizabeth Belly was born December the 4th, 1779. 



184 The History of Marlborough. 

?.Iary Belly was born March the 11th, 17>^1 ; died in '82. 
Nicholas Belly was born March the 3Uth, 1782. 
Nathaniel Belly was born Sept. 11th, 1783. 
Jacob Belly was born Oct. the 29th, 1785. 
Jane Belly was born February the 24th, 1788. 
Mary Belly was born March the loth, 1790. 
Susannah Belly was born June 16th, 1792. 
Martha Belly was born May 17th, 1794. 
John Belly jr., was born January 19th, 1797. 

Bernard Belly was born May 29th. 1800, and departed this life the 2(tth 
of January, 1802. 



Brown. 



Thomas Brown, born in Bristol, England, in 181 7, married 
a Boyle, engaged in mercantile business, and emigrated to 
Marlborougn about 1835, securing a homestead on the Marl- 
borough mountain, where he farmed. He left four children, 
Charles H., Thos. P., William and Mary. William has 
moved away. Charles married a Scott. Thos. P. and Mary 
occupy the old homestead on Mount Zion. 



Hurst, 



The original settler of this name was Jonathan Hurst, 
born in Yorkshire, England, in 1800. He married a Brooks, 
engaged in farming and manufacturing. In 1826 he came 
to Poughkeepsie, and four years later to Marlborough, en- 
gaging in John Buckley's factory. He died in 1857, leaving 
lour children : Josiah, John, Martha and Elizabeth. Eliza' 
beth died a few years ago. Martha married H. J. Bye. 



Other Prominent Men. 

Daniel S. Tuthill, son of Congressman Selah Tuthill, pub- 
lished the "Pioneer" newspaper in Milton from 1829 until 



The History of Marlborough. 185 

his death in 1833. Though he only lived to twenty-seven 
years of age, yet he was one of the most active business men 
of the locality. His remains are interred in the old Presby- 
terian cemetery at Marlborough, 

Jesse T. Conklin was a representative man in Milton fifty 
years ago. He was supervisor in 1830. 

Miles J. Fletcher was a man of much prominence in Marl- 
borough in the thirties. He kept store here and was super- 
visor in 1836 and '37. 

Stephen and Joshua Case lived here a hundred years ago, 
and were buried here. They exercised a large influence in 
public affairs. Stephen was town clerk from 1778 to 1783. 

Dr. Benjamin El}- was a man of strong character, and a 
slave holder. He owned a large farm west of the present 
village and practiced medicine. He was town clerk from 
1784 to 1790, and lived here for many years. He was a 
soldier in the Revolution, and fought at Bunker Hill. 

Samuel Stilwell came to Marlborough in 185 1 from Stone 
Ridge. He kept store for four years, and then followed 
fruit farming. Only his later 3'ears were spent in Marl- 
borough. He was an active member of the Methodist 
Church, and was a class leader. He held several public 
positions of honor. In 1880 he died, leaving considerable 
property. He was a man of broad views, and contributed 
liberally to the construction of both the Presbyterian and 
Methodist church buildings. His son, S. W. Stilwell, oc- 
cupies the old homestead on Main street. 



THE FRUIT INDUSTRY, 



Marlborough is known to the outside world principally 
through her fruits, which hav^e attained a wide celebrity in 
New York, Philadelphia and Boston markets. Located in 
the centre of the Hudson valley fruit section, Marlborough 
possesses the very best soil and the most fertile slopes of the 
whole territory. More fruit is shipped from this town than 
any other point on the Hudson, and the place justly claims 
precedence in all points connected with the raising of small 
fruits. 

Grapes. 

Concord grapes are raised in immense numbers, though 
all other good varieties have their footing. It may be of in- 
terest here to trace the growth of grape growing in New 
York. The first grape vineyard in the state was planted by 
John Jacques, at Washingtonville, Orange county. The 
first vines planted by him were Isabellas, and the}* are yet 
living and bearing every year. Dr. Underbill, of Croton 
Point, planted his vineyards soon after. 

William Cornell, of Clintondale^ was the first to plant 
grapes in vineyard form in Ulster county. These were 
Ifabellas, procured from Dr. Underbill in 1846. Soon after 
Jacob Heaton, Alexander Palmer and William Knififin, all 
of the town of Plattekill, started vineyards. This was before 
the Coilcord, Diana or Delaware were known. These 
varieties were introduced on the Hudson by A. J. Cay wood, 
then of the town of Plattekill. He first planted the Diana 
in 1853, the Delaware in 1854 and the Concord in 1855. George 
Lawson, of Marlborough, is believed to have been first to 
plant the Concord in this town, about twenty-five years ago. 
Since that time grape growing has steadily increased. It is 



The History of Marlborough. 187 

estimated that thfee thousand five hundred tons of grapes 
were shipped from the town last year. 

While the Concord is most largely raised, being the grape 
for the million, many other varieties are grown, some of 
which promise some day to supplant the popular Concord. 
The Niagara and Pocklington are among recent candidates 
for favor. 

A. J. Caywood & Son have introduced several varieties, 
among others the Duchess, Poughkeepsie Red and Ulster 
Prolific. The Poughkeepsie Red is a cross between the 
Delaware and lona, and possesses the peculiar quality of 
posses'ing nothing offensive to the taste, but may be chewed 
down, skin, seeds and all with relish. It is very hardy. 

The Ulster Prolific was first fruited fifteen years ago, and 
is deep red in color, compact in cluster, of fine flavor and 
about the size of the Concord. 

Peaches. 

Peach raising has had a large run in Mai'lborough, though 
the fruit is not grown as much now as a few yeais since, it 
having been demonstrated that this climate is too cold, and 
that a good peach crop cannot be obtained but once in three 
or four years. When there is a good crop of late peaches, 
however, the prices received are enormous, five and ten dol- 
lars a basket being top figures. Many growers have made 
money out of peaches, and many have lost, and the uncer- 
tainty of the crop reduces rather than increases the number 
of Pfrowers. 




The Famous Antwerp Raspberry. 



1 88 The History of Marlborough. 

The Famous Antwerp Raspberry. 

The growing of small fruits for market began in the town 
of Marlborough with the introduction of the Hudson River 
Antwerp. This variety was brought in by Edward Young, 
in 1836, as described ni the sketch of the Young family, in a 
previous chapter of this work In the spring of 1837 plants 
were brought here from New Rochelle, Westchester Co., by 
Thomas H. Burling, and planted in the garden of his son-in- 
law, Nathaniel Hallock, and gnnvn for family use for some 
years. Edward Young was the lirst.to introduce them to 
market, and to him and Alexander and William C. Young 
are present growers largely indebted for demonstrating the 
profit to be derived from marketing berries and small fruits 
generally. The Antwerp was the best and most profitable 
berry ever known, but the variety is now almost run out, 
becoming more scarce with every season. Other berries 
have come in to take its place, the most prominent being 
Caywood's Marlborough raspberry. 

Other small fruits are Jargely raised here, strawberries 
and currants ranking next to raspberries. Blackberries are 
beginning to be introduced, and promise to be profitable. 
One prominent variety has been originated in the town by 
A. J. Cay wood & Son. Ir is styled the Minnewaski black- 
berr}^ and is of large liize, glossy black in color, with a tender 
core. Indeed, the Cay woods have originated so many good 
new fruits that Marlborough is becoming almost as widel}' 
known as a source of new fruits as it is for the successful 
growing and large production of the same. 




The Minnewaski Blackberry. 



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STATISTICAL. 



Marlborough derives its name from John Churchill, the 
famous English general, Duke of Marlborough, born in 1650, 
died in 1722. The town lies in the southeastern corner of 
Ulster county, and is eight miles in length at the west, with 
a river front of five and three-quarter miles, extending three 
and a half to four miles west of the river. It includes the 
villages of Marlborough and Milton, and the hamlet of Lat- 
tintown. The superficial area is given in the supervisors' 
report for 1877 as 14,300 acres. In 1870 the assessed valu- 
ation was $379,81 1- In 1886 it was $974,015. The average 
assessed value per acre is $40. 

The boundaries of the town are described in the revised 
statutes as follows : 

"The Town of Marlborough shall contain all that part of 
said county, bounded easterly and southerly by the bounds 
of the county ; westerly by a line beginning on the line of 
the county, two chains and seventy-live links east of the north 
corner of a tract called the Five Patentees, and running 
thence on a straight line northerly to the most easterh^ 
bounds of the land heretofore of Robert Tift, where it joins 
the Town of New Paltz ; and northerly by a tract granted to 
Lewis DuBois and partners, called the New Paltz patent." — 
Revised Statutes, vol. i, page 219. 

In i860 the population of the Town of Marlborough was 
2,776; in 1865 it decreased to 2,733. In 1870 it was 2,974. B3' 
1875 it had gained eleven souls, the figures being 2985. The 
estimated population in 1887 is from 4,50:) to 5,000, of which 
the village of Marlborough comprises 1,200 to 1,500. 

In 170I there was not a house in what is now the Town of 
Marlborough. In fact there was only one in the whole 
Evans' tract, and that was near Cornwall. From the time 



The History of Marlborough. 191 

Capt. Bond settled here in 1712, the place has increased 
rapidly, the greatest growth being made during the past 
five years, since the West Shore & Buffalo R. R. was opened. 
Following is the list of Supervisors, who have represented 
Marlborough at the county seat : 

1772, Lewis DuBois ; 'j^j, Benjamin Carpenter; '78-79, 
Elijah Lewis; '80, Anning Smith; '81, Lewis DuBois; '82, 
Stephen Case ; '83-89, Anning Smith ; '90-94, Ebenezer Foote ; 
95-97' Stephen Nottingham ; '9:^-99, Cornelius Drake ; 
1800-11, Benjamin Ely; '12-16, Nehemiah L. Smith; '17, 
David Staples; '18-19, Richard L. Woolsey; '20-24, William 
Soper; '25, William Gedney ; '26-29, Benjamin Harcourt ; 
'30, Jesse T. Conklin ; '31, Benjamin Harcourt ; '32-33, 
Abram D. Soper; '34, William D. Wygant; '35, David W. 
Woolsey; '36-37, Miles J. Fletcher; '38-39, William Soper; 
'40, Lewis W. Young ; '41-42, Robert S. Lockwood ; '43, 
David Fowler; '44-45, William Martin; '46, John D. Crook ; 
'47, Cornelius Carpenter; '48, John D. Crook; '49-50, Lee 
Ensign; '51, John D. Crook; '52-53, William H. Gedney; 
'54, James C. Harcourt ; '55, William H. Gedney ; '56, Thos. 
D. Bloomer; '57, William H. Gedney; '58, Robert Beebe ; 
'59, William B. Pierson ; '60, Cornelius Carpenter; '61, Wil- 
liam B. Pierson; '62, Jesse Lyons; '63, James C. Harcourt- 
'64-71, Jesse Lyons; '72-73, William Bloomer; '74, William 
H. Gedney ; '75, William Bloomer ; '']6, Townsend M. Sher- 
man ; 'j'j, Eugene F. Patten ; '78, Townsend M. Sherman ; 
'79, Eugene F. Patten; '80-81, James C. Harcourt; '82-84, 
C. Meech Woolsey ; '85, Samuel L. Quimby ; '86-87, C. 
Meech Woolsey. 

The early settlers of Marlborough received their mail 
through the Newburgh post office. About 1825 a weekly 
mail was delivered here. The postmasters have been Daniel 
J. Russell, Miles J. Flctc.:ji, i^ibcrt B. Mapes, Dr. Jas. S. 
Knapp, Samuel Corwin, Daik.s DuBois, Chas. T. Jackson, 
John H. Baxter, John C. Merritt and M. V. B. Morgan. 
Milton first had a mail in 1828. The postmasters were 
Abram D. Soper, Wm. Soper, Calvin Bulkeley, David 
Sands, Earl Stone, Ethan Parrott, Fred H. Smith. 



192 The History of Marlborough. 

Marlborough was represented in the State Legislature in 
1843 by William Soper; 1853, L. Harrison Smith ; i860, Jere- 
miah Clark; C. Meech Woolscy, 1871-72. 



<\(Sv,M^^ 



BUSINESS INDUSTRIES 

AND BUSINESS MEN. 

The village of Marlborough in 1877 is a thriving place, 
and contains probably fifteen hundred population within a 
one mile radius of the centre. About seventy-five business 
concerns exist here, and most of them are progressive and 
enterprising. The constant improvements made on every 
hand indicate that Marlborough is a growing village, and 
will soon be incorporated. The location is advantageous to 
growth, being midway between Newburghand Poughkeep- 
sie. Business men have not been slow to appreciate these 
advantages, and the influx of new residents and new in- 
dustries is steady and healthy. 

The following alphabetical resume of the men who carry 
on business, and how they do it, may serve to illustrate the 
character and extent ol the trade now carried on in Marl- 
borough. These are in no sense advertisements, nor are 
they introduced in this work for any other purpose than to 
demonstrate to non-residents that the business interests of 
Marlborough are considerable, and compare very favorably 
with the condition of the place as portrayed in preceding 
pages : 

B. B. Apgar, who runs the flour and grist mill on Landing 
street, came to Marlborough from Whiteport, in 1885, and 
has managed the mill successfully. His two son? assist him 
in the business. 

Edwin W. Barnes established a boot and shoe and hat and 
cap store in the Kniffln block in April, 1886. He came 
from Middle Hope, being already known to a large number 
of citizens. His business is now regarded as a fixture, and 
a decided addition to the village. Mr. Barnes is a taxider- 
mist, and has'fine cases of stuffed birds and animals in his 
store. The tops of shelves and other prominent places are 
also adorned with stuffed birds in appropriate positions. 



194 The History of Marlborough. 

John Badner has the honor of being for fifty-three years 
a merchant in Marlborough, a record in excess of any other 
tradesman. He has witnessed a great many changes, and a 
long and steady growth of the town. When he opened 
store here the "Terrace" was nothing but open fields, most- 
ly devoted to grain, with a few patches of wood. Four new 
streets, each half a mile long, have been laid out there dur- 
ing his experience as a boot, shoe and clothing merchant. 
He has a wide acquaintance, and can discourse quite elo- 
quently of Marlborough, and the many changes which he 
has witnessed. During the summer he makes a business of 
furnishing berry pickers to the fruit growers of the vicinit}^, 
and many Germans flock regularly to his place for employ- 
ment as soon as the season opens. 

George A. Badner is son of John Badner, and leader of 
the Marlborough Cornet Band, and also plays in Lent & 
Badner's orchestra. 

John W. Badner keeps a restaurant and pool room on 
Main street, and has a large custom. He has been estab- 
lished four or five years. 

Jacob Berean is a contractor for mason work and lathing 
and plastering, and the many new houses going up keep 
him busy. 

George Brundidge has carried on the watch and jewelry 
business for a year or two, having his headquarters in Gor- 
don's drug store. 

John Bingham has a nursery and does a considerable local 
trade in fruits and berries. 

S. F. Burgess took the furniture business of C. B. Redfield 
the latter part of 1886. He is a practical man, having had 
twenty years' experience in the manufacture of furniture. 

Carpenter's store was established in 1843, ranking second 
in point of age. The business was started by the grand-, 
father of James S. Carpenter. The trade has been that of a 
general country store, selling a variety of staple articles. In 
l886 the store was enlarged and improved, and a meat 
market added. The proprietor constantly adds new 
features, and aims to keep everything in the provision line ; 



The History of Marlborough. 195 

also selling coal and plows. He advertises largely and 
drives trade on modern principles. 

Thos. ,E. Carroll conducts the harness store at the junction 
of Main and King streets, which was long and successfully 
run by W. H. Goehringer. He is a newcomer who has made 
a good impression in Marlborough. 

A. J. Caywood & Son have extensive nurseries south of 
the village of Marlborough. They make a specialty of pro- 
ducing new vai"ieties of fruit, and have attained a wide 
celebrity for some varieties, noticeabl}^ the Ulster Prolific, 
Dutchess and Poughkeepsie Red grapes, Minnewaski black- 
berry, and the Marlborough raspberry. The firm have 
about sixty acres in fruit, and probably are experimenting 
with as many new varieties of fruit as any concern in the 
country. Their trade is mostly foreign. 

Caywood «S: Wardell are a new firm in the nursery busi- 
ness, established in 1887. 

Walter J. Caywood & Co. are dealers in paints, oils, var- 
nishe;, etc. The firm handle a considerable quantity of 
varnishes and stains of W. J. Caywood's own production. 

W. S. Clark & Son are proprietors of the mill a mile and 
a half west of Marlborough, one of the oldest mill sites in 
town, being on the same spot as Silas Purdy's mill, where 
town meetings, were held during the last century. They 
have long been established, and. have a high business stand- 
ing. 

Charles H. Cochrane established the Marlborough Pro- 
gress in July, 1885, in connection with M. F. Appelgate. 
The newspaper and job printing business started by 
them has proved a success. Appelgate retired in 1886, and 
Cochrane conducted the business in the second story of 
Kniffin's block until August of the present year. The paper 
was started four pages in size, seven columns to a page, and 
has been enlarged several times. The present proprietor, 
Egbert E. Carr, came from Rome, N. Y., where for twenty- 
one years he edited the Roman Citizen. He has ic-chris- 
tened the paper "The Marlborough Record." 

H. Scott Corwin is the Southern Ulster correspondent of 



196 The History of Marlborough. 

the Kingston Freeman, and also contributes to the Orange 
County Farmer and several New York papers. 

Samuel Corwin is a real estate and insurance agent, and a 
great deal of property passes through his hands. 

Sam'l Corwin's Sons conduct the dry goods, grocery, car- 
pet, hardware and general store business, established by 
their father in i860. They advertise largely, and deal in a 
great variety of goods, and keep a model store, on the prin- 
ciple that people will not go out of town to buy when they 
can do as well at home, and that it pays to keep a full line in 
the country as well as in a city store. H. S. Corwin and 
Edward Corwin compose the firm. 

Henry Covert is the only licensed veterinary surgeon in 
the village. He has all the trade in sick horses and cattle. 
He is also the inventor of an ointment for sores and wounds 
on animals, which has acquired some local reputation. 

Mrs. Libbie Craft keeps the only millinery store in the 
place, being located on Main street, having been established 
about four years. 

Patrick Crough is a mason and builder, and has all the 
contracts he can handle. 

George Davy is a mason, and has fulfilled contracts on 
some of the finest residences in and about the village. 

Eldorous Dayton, attorney at law, has recently opened 
an office in Marlborough village. He also has an ofhce in 
Milton. 

A. Dimick DuBois, contractor and builder, is putting up 
new houses all the time. 

Abner Fuller's harness store in McMullen's building, on 
Main street, was established the present year, is tastefully 
fitted up, and promises to be a success. He has come to stay. 

J. F. Hensey runs the only tonsorial establishment in town, 
keeping an assistant. He also sells tobacco, cigars, and 
gent's furnishing goods. 

Maurice Hudler's fruit and confectionery store on West- 
ern avenue has been established about five years. He fur- 
nishes refreshments to parties, entertainments and festivals, 
and manufactures ice cream on a large scale. 



The History of MarlboroiigJi. 197 

Chas. W. Jackson is agent of the Poughkeepsie Transpor- 
tation Company, on the lower clock. He is also town clerk, 
having held the office several years. 

Charles H. Kniffin opened his grocery and news store 
four years since. He sells all the popular papers. The 
telephone office is located in his store, connecting with both 
Newburgh and Poughkeepsie. 

Samuel H. Kniffin is proprietor of the Exchange hotel, 
the oldest hotel building in the town. A large extension 
was made to the building the present year, and the arrange- 
ments compare favorably with those of hotels in places of 
greater population than Marlborough. 

J. O. Mackey runs a stage line to the West Shore R. R. 
depot, and also meets all passenger boats and carries the U. 
S. mail. He began business in June, 1883, ^'^^^ vi\Q,X. the first 
train run on the West Shore line. Previous to that date he 
ran a stage line to Newburgh. 

W. H. McCuUough has a wheelwright shop in Western 
avenue, where he repairs wagons, sleighs, etc. He has been 
established some years. 

Moses McMuUen is the proprietor of the Farmers' hotel, 
on Main street. The buildings are extensive, including a 
pool room, bowling alley and rifle gallery. 

A. B. Masten, house and sign painter, has his headquarters 
in the basement of Shaw's building, on King street. He is 
a veteran in the business. 

Elmer E. McNamee has the Main street drugstore, having 
purchased of C. W. Frost in 1886. He keeps a full stock of 
drugs, paints and fancy articles. 

Jesse R. Masten is a contractor for painting, and executes 
numerous large contracts. 

M. L. Masten's bakery on Western avenue, is an old estab- 
lished institution. A wagon is run, delivering over a con- 
siderable territor3\ 

J. Carlton Merritt, proprietor of the large dry goods, 
grocery, hardware and general store, on Main street, has 
been established twelve years, succeeding John H. Baxter. 
He had the post office in his store for nine years prior to 



198 The History of Marlborough. 

1886, He is agent lor the National Express Co., and does 
some banking business. His store is one of the first in the 
place. 

Merritt & Kelly are contractors and builders, and have 
built some of the finest dwellings in Marlborough. Edward 
A. Merritt and Marcus D. Kelly compose the firm. 

J. C. & G. H. Milden have a livery stable, and do all kinds 
of teaming and hauling, and run a stnge in the summer sea- 
son. They also cut ice from Milden's pond in the winter, 
and deliver to owners of small ice houses. 

M. V. B. Morgan has a meat market on Main street, and 
is also postmaster, taking the office by Cleveland's appoint- 
ment in 1886. 

David Mosher, M. D., is a physician of the allopathic 
school, who settled in Marlborough five or six years since, 
He started the drug store now owned by Everitt& Gordon. 

Milton Munday runs an express to Newburgh Wednes- 
days and Saturdays, and has his headquarters in Penny's 
store. He is also an insurance agent. 

Wm. H. Newman has the tin and sto\e store, and does 
roofing, guttering and spouting. The business was started 
by James Shaw. 

A. N. Palmer, M. D., has practiced medicine in Marlbo- 
rough for nine years. He is also a justice of the peace, and 
is serving second term as school trustee. 

Isaac R. Penny bought the retail boot and shoe business 
of Stillwell & Smith three years ago, and in 1886 removed 
his store to its present location on Western avenue. He 
carries a large stock of footwear, especially in rubber goods. 

Chas. E. Reynolds, carriage maker and wheclright, has 
been known to the public of Marlborough for years. He 
occupies the old stand on Main street, and is busy all the 
year round. 

Isaac Reynolds, boot and shoemaker, north of the post 
office, does custom work and repairing. 

Philip A. Rion, undertaker, has been established about 
four years. He furnishes modern appointments, and directs 
a large number of funerals. 



The History of Marlborough. igg 

John Riisk, attorney at law, has been settled in Marlbo- 
rough for nine years. He is also a notary public and in- 
surance agent. He does a large business in the settling of 
estates, etc. 

John Rusk, jr.-, is justice of the peace. Ofifice with John 
Rusk, sr. 

G. B. Shelden is station and National Express agent at the 
West Shore R. R. station. 

Stephen D. Warren, blacksmith, located on Western 
avenue. He was for several years at the shop on the Lat- 
tintown road, a mile and a half west of Marlborough, but 
took the shop in the village the present year. His custom 
is extensive. 

John E. Woolsey is proprietor of the Western avenue 
meat market. He drives a. wagon through the country in 
the summer months, and furnishes the village trade from his 
market. 

N. W. Wright has a flour and grist mill on West Landing 
street, being assisted in the business by his son, Fred. 
Wrigh.t. The mill is a very old one, being the same run b}^ 
Spence & McElrath as a woolen mill sixty years ago. 

D. L. Wygant has a blacksmith shop on Main street, and 
does a great deal of horse shoeing and general jobbing. 

William C. Young & Son are proprietors of the upper 
dock, dealers in coal and fertilizers and agents for the Ron- 
dout line of steamboats. Their trade is extensive. 



Milton Bukines^s Men. 

Edward Anderson is the house and sign painter of Milton, 
having executed some of the best work in the village. He 
is also blackboard artist in the Methodist Sunday school, 
where he has rendered useful service for several years. 
Politically he is a Democrat, and has held the office of col- 
lector two terms. He is the Milton correspondent of the 
" Marlborough Record," and compiles the news for the 
village. 



200 TJie History of Marlborough. 

James H. Crook came to Milton and started in the i^rocery 
business at the dock in 1862. He was also agent for the 
Rondout boats for a number of years. In 1882, when the 
West Shore R. R. line was cut through the dock property 
he was forced to move, and W. H. Townsend built him a 
large store about 150 feet west of the old stand. He con- 
tinued there until 1884, when he built the commodious store 
which he now occupies on the main street. Meat and poul- 
try have been added to the grocery stock. J. H. Crook is 
a native of the town, having been born about a mile west of 
Marlborough village, October 9, 1833. He has been a life- 
long Democrat. 

C. J. Depu}' carries on the blacksmith business in the vil- 
lage of Milton, having come here in August, 1876, and pur- 
chased the business of John Galawa}'. He has built up a 
considerable trade, and has a constant supply of new work 
and repairing. 

Robert J. Dickey came to Milton, from Poughkeepsie in 
i860, and bought the drug store of Dr. Pierson. He is a 
native of Newburgh, and a brother of Nathaniel, Wm. D. 
and Joseph Dickey of that city. 

William A. Goehringer in 1880 saw that there was an 
opening for a stove and tinware store in Milton, and sup- 
plied the long felt want. His business has proved success- 
ful, and a confectionary and ice cream store has been added. 

C. J. Miller, tonsorial artist, came to this village from Ger- 
many in 1866, and opened a barber shop and cigar store, 
which are of more than ordinary pretensions for a place of 
the size. He has customers from a radius of several miles. 

Nolan & Spratt opened their grocery on the 14th of July, 
1886, being the successors of Friend W. Perkins, who fol- 
lowed Jacob Rowley. These young men are natives of the 
town, and having a large acquaintance command a good 
trade. They deliver orders anywhere in the vicinity and 
are up to the times. 

Eugene Foster Patten came to Milt(^n December 29, 1870, 
as successor to J. O. Smith, in the butchering and meat 
market business. When he took the place the trade was 



The History of Marlborough. 201 

small, but under his management it has become quite large. 
A few years since he enlarged his market to secure more 
room, and recently he built a new and large ice house on 
the property of Nathaniel Hallock. Seven men are con- 
stantly employed by hirh, four of whom are kept busy 
slaughtering for the New York market. In politics Eugene 
F. Patten has always been a Democrat, and is local leader 
in his party, having served as supervisor, collector and other 
honorable positions. 

Albert Pattison carries on the wagon making and repair 
shop of Milton, He came from Matteawan to this place in 
March, 1878, and has secured a good patronage. His work 
is superior, and the best wagons and sleighs in the village 
are of his make. 

Ethan Parrott is one of the oldest business men in Milton. 
He commenced business on the dock, in connection with his 
brother-in-law, James H. Malcolm, in the year 1854. And 
he has carried on the mercantile business here since then 
with the exception of the year 1863, when he was engaged 
in the grocery business in the city of Poughkeepsie. Return- 
ing after one year he purchased of the estate of the late 
Luther Pratt the property on Main street, where he has ever 
since been engaged in the mercantile business. Besides his 
store business he held the office of postmaster for fifteen 
years, and he was also town clerk for one year. In i860 he 
he was elected school commissioner for this Assembly Dis- 
trict by a large majority, holding the office for three years, 
and again in 18S1, he was appointed by Judge Lawton to 
the same office to carry out the unexpired term of Dr. 
Bauscher, who resigned the office to take charge of a school 
at College Point, Long Island. In the same autumn he was 
again elected to the office for three years by a large majority. 
As a public officer he has always given general satisfaction. 
He has been a leading member of the Methodist church for 
over forty years, and has held the office of steward for over 
thirty years, and most of that time has been recording- 
steward. In his early years he was a successful school teach- 
* er in Ulster and Dutchess counties. Besides paying strict 



202 Tlic History of Marlborongh. 

attention to his business, he has found time for literary im- 
provement, being well acquainted with the most popular 
authors, and always interested in the study of English litera- 
ture. In 1846 he married Julia Ann Malcolm, who died in 
May, 1887, leaving six children: Dr. Malcolm E. Parrott, of 
Brooklyn ; George E. Parrott, of Highland ; Dr. Walter E. 
Parrott, of Catskill ; Mrs. Dr. C. J. Wood, of Wappingers 
Falls; Mrs. George P. DuBois. of Milton, and Mrs. DeWitt 
H. DuBois, of Highland. 

Justice Wm. S. Ramsle}' has an office in the village, and 
dispenses the law therefrom. He has been justice of the 
peace several years. 

W. H. Townsend runs a store at the dock, and another at 
the centre of Milton, the latter being the one occupied by 
Jacob B. Townsend previous to 1867. He does a large 
business in grain, flour, etc., owns considerable property 
and is a prominent member of the Presbyterian church. 
His son, W. H. Townsend, jr., assists him in his business. 

C. Meech Woolsey has an office in Main streei. He is an 
attorney at law, town supervisor, etc., and does a great deal 
of public business. 



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